696 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.