Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
-
-
We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
In politics nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
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 -
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
There is moderation even in excess.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI






