3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
