696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Her Majesty is not a subject.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

He traces the steam train always back to the kettle

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.