Benjamin Disraeli

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely…

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best…

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation…

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in…

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action…

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the…

A majority is always better than the best repartee…

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory…

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power…

We cannot learn men from books…

Fear makes us feel our humanity…

Assassination has never changed the history of the world…

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being…

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than…

The secret of success is constancy to purpose…