Benjamin Disraeli
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.Collection: Genius
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.Collection: Plato
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.Collection: Party
London; a nation, not a city.Collection: Cities
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.Collection: Success
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.Collection: Meaningful
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.Collection: Time
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.Collection: Failure
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.Collection: Music
All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.Collection: Fall
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.Collection: Life Is Too Short
Ignorance never settles a question.Collection: Ignorance
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.Collection: Anxiety
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.Collection: Happiness
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Collection: Art
It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.Collection: Country
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.Collection: Giving
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around youCollection: Stronger
A man's fate is his own temper.Collection: Fate
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.Collection: Writing
Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.Collection: Rothschild
The greatest of all evils is a weak governmentCollection: Government
Everything comes if a man will only wait.Collection: Patience
There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.Collection: Sin
Change is constant in a progressive country.Collection: Life
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.Collection: Men
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.Collection: Advice
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.Collection: Class
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.Collection: Art
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.Collection: Art
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.Collection: Im Sorry
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.Collection: Destiny
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.Collection: Army
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.Collection: Listening
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.Collection: Believe
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?Collection: Science
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.Collection: Ideas
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.Collection: Use
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.Collection: Race
Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.Collection: Party
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.Collection: Fate
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.Collection: Errors
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.Collection: Religion
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.Collection: Time
The gondola of London [a hansom].Collection: London
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.Collection: Party
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.Collection: Growth
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.Collection: Kings