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 DISRAELIDamn your principles! Stick to your party.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
-
-
London is a roost for every bird.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
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 -
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
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 fervor.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI