Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)
British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Speech in the House of Commons (11 April 1845).
There is no education like adversity.
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
He was quite remarkable enough to fill a volume of Éloge. Someone wrote to me yesterday that no Jew for 1800 years has played so great a part in the world. That would be no Jew since St. Paul; and it is very startling.
If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann!
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Never complain and never explain.
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
I entirely differ with the Government as to the value of precedents. In this case, as in others, precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.