Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 22, 1848
Never take anything for granted.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Oct. 5, 1864
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Coningsby
Justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
Time is the great physician.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Endymion
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
My idea of an agreeable person ... is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Lothair
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Nov. 19, 1873
Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 28, 1859
Party is organized opinion.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Nov. 25, 1864
A majority is always the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Tancred
Power has only one duty -- to secure the social welfare of the People.
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Coningsby
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Coningsby
Little things affect little minds.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Oct. 29, 1867
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