696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.