Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
Benjamin Disraeli

Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli