696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.