696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you.

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

Every moment is travel – if understood.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,? said Disraeli, ’whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

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

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.