696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.