Famous quotes by Statesmans

"As for our majority... One is enough"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A precedent embalms a principle"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A majority is always better than the best repartee"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Man is only great when he acts from passion"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"London is a roost for every bird"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Little things affect little minds"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"In a progressive country, change is constant; change is inevitable"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Duty cannot exist without faith"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful, even than conquerors and prophets"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We moralize among ruins"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We cannot learn men from books"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"There is no gambling like politics"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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