696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'