463 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. (Meaning)

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. (Quote Meaning)

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

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.

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. (Meaning)

Never complain and never explain. (Meaning)

Finality is not the language of politics. (Meaning)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. (Quote Meaning)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. (Meaning)

There is no education like adversity. (Meaning)

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Conservatism offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Quote Meaning)

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Ignorance never settles a question. (Meaning)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Meaning)

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts (Meaning)

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.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. (Meaning)

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Meaning)

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. (Meaning)

Never take anything for granted. (Meaning)

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. (Meaning)

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. (Quote Meaning)

Success is the child of audacity. (Meaning)

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

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

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. (Meaning)

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. (Quote Meaning)

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. (Meaning)

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. (Quote Meaning)

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. (Meaning)

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. (Meaning)

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Great men never require experience.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Life is too short to be little. (Meaning)

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (Meaning)

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Everything comes if a man will only wait. (Meaning)

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Little things affect little minds. (Meaning)

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. (Meaning)

Beauty can inspire miracles.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Silence is the mother of truth. (Meaning)

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. (Meaning)

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. (Quote Meaning)

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. (Meaning)

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

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

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. (Meaning)

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. (Meaning)

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

An obedient wife commands her husband. (Meaning)

Duty cannot exist without faith

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. (Quote Meaning)

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.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. (Meaning)

All must respect those who respect themselves.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

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

There can be economy only where there is efficiency. (Meaning)

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. (Meaning)

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

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

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

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

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

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

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

There is no diplomacy like silence.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

A precedent embalms a principle. (Quote Meaning)

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

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

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. (Meaning)

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

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

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

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

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in. (Meaning)

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

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Meaning)

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

Travel teaches toleration. (Meaning)

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

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. (Quote Meaning)

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. (Meaning)

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

We moralize among ruins.

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

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

Adventures are to the adventurous. (Meaning)

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

He who gains time gains everything.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. (Quote Meaning)

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. (Meaning)

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

The canter is a cure for every evil. (Meaning)

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

We are taught words, not ideas.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Justice is truth in action. (Meaning)

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. (Meaning)

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

A person's fate is their own temper.

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.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

London is a modern Babylon.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

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.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

There is moderation even in excess.

London is a roost for every bird. (Meaning)

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

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

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

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

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

With words we govern men. (Meaning)

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Damn your principles! Stick to your party. (Meaning)

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

A canter is the cure for all evil. (Meaning)

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

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

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

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.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. (Meaning)

Life is to short to be small.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. (Meaning)

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. (Meaning)

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. (Meaning)

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

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. (Quote Meaning)

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Meditation is culture.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

As for our majority... one is enough.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

We cannot learn men from books.

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

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Party is organized opinion.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Departure should be sudden.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

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

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other. (Meaning)

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

There is no gambling like politics.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

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.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Genius, when young, is divine.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Books are the curse of the human race.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. (Meaning)

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Information upon points of practical politics.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the

Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Small things affects small minds.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

The expected always happens (Meaning)

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Nature is stronger than education.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

England does not love coalitions.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

London; a nation, not a city.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. (Meaning)

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

All is race - there is no other truth.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.