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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.

“I say that justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Truth

All Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Fear

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Learning

“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Power

“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Love

“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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

God

“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge

“We cannot learn men from books.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Men

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life

“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Business

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Courage

“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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Best

“There is no education like adversity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Education

“Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Age

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage

“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Men

“Success is the child of audacity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Success

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Politics