696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.