696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

The canter is a cure for every evil.