Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy, Weary, Statesmen

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

Great, Knowledge, Step

Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing, Learn, Tact

A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli

Best, Majority, Repartee

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli

Principle, Precedent

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great, Done, Youth

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mother, Bad, Children

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

History, Changed

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

Genius, Enthusiasm, Production

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

Everyone, Likes, Flattery

Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great, Countries, Produce

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

Ignorance, Wrong, Idea

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli

Two, Means, Leisure

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

Critical, Correct, Easier

London is a modern Babylon.
Benjamin Disraeli

Modern, London, Babylon

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli

Person, Idea, Agreeable

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, Sometimes, Gladness

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

Books, Nonsense, Clever

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

Life, Hard, Easy

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

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

Beauty, Wealth, Teach

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government, Fatal

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: December 21, 1804

Died: April 19, 1881

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