Benjamin Disraeli
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.Collection: Responsibility
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.Collection: Moving
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.Collection: Power
A canter is the cure for all evil.Collection: Animal
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.Collection: Animal
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.Collection: Suffering
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.Collection: Vapid
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.Collection: England
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.Collection: Destiny
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Reading
That earliest shock in one’s life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.Collection: Firsts