696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse