696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.