696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.