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 DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
-
-
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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 -
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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 -
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 -
As for our majority… one is enough.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI