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Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party. Also a successful novelist, Disraeli was known for his eloquent speeches and memorable turns of phrase.

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“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Love

All Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Good

“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Teen

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“Great countries are those that produce great people.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

History

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Health

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Good

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Courage

“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

History

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Time

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

History

“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Politics

“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Peace

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Government

“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Science