696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Great men never require experience.

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.