Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, born Benjamin D’Israeli, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes and Sayings

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A person’s fate is their own temper.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Adventures are to the adventurous.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There is no wisdom like frankness.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Finality is not the language of politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Never complain and never explain.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.
- Benjamin Disraeli

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

We moralize among ruins.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
- Benjamin Disraeli