Benjamin Disraeli
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.Collection: Believe
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.Collection: Art
An obedient wife commands her husband.Collection: Husband
There is no wisdom like frankness.Collection: Frankness
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.Collection: War
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Character
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.Collection: Mistake
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.Collection: Affection
Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.Collection: Europe
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. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.Collection: Confused
Quit the world, and the world forgets you.Collection: World
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.Collection: Men
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.Collection: Horse
We are taught words, not ideas.Collection: Education
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Numbers
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.Collection: Political
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.Collection: Imagination
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.Collection: Angel
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.Collection: Wisdom
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Passion
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.Collection: Country
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.Collection: Men
Man is more powerful than matter.Collection: Powerful
I say that justice is truth in action.Collection: Truth
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperousCollection: Wise
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.Collection: Christianity
Small things affects small minds.Collection: Mind
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.Collection: Book
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.Collection: Money
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.Collection: World
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.Collection: Parsimony
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.Collection: Learning
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.Collection: Pages
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.Collection: Opportunity
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.Collection: Christianity
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Country
Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.Collection: Time
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.Collection: May
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .Collection: Incense
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.Collection: Children
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.Collection: Encouragement
The essence of education is the education of the body.Collection: Education
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.Collection: Views
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.Collection: Book
Religion is civilization, the highest.Collection: Civilization