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

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
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.
Benjamin Disraeli

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli