Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Benjamin Disraeli

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Benjamin Disraeli

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. 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 Disraeli

Every man should marry - and no woman

Benjamin Disraeli

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Benjamin Disraeli

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

Benjamin Disraeli

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

Benjamin Disraeli

Turtle makes all men equal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Benjamin Disraeli

With words we govern men.

Benjamin Disraeli

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Benjamin Disraeli

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Benjamin Disraeli

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Benjamin Disraeli

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great men never require experience.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.