696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.