"If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
Benjamin Disraeli was a British Prime Minister and novelist known for his influential role in shaping modern conservatism and his literary contributions.
- Born
- December 21, 1804
- Died
- April 19, 1881
- Quotes
- 547
- Rank
- #401
Quote collection
Benjamin Disraeli quotes (page 3 of 28)
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"Success is the child of audacity."
"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
"It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."
"Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd."
"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
"Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else."
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."
"Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress."
"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few."
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves."
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."