Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A canter is a cure for every evil.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance never settles a question.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
- Benjamin Disraeli

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Benjamin Disraeli

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Benjamin Disraeli

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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