Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Statistics, Lies, Lying

• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Politicians, Weary, Statesmen

• The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Tags in Metaphysics

• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jerusalem, Heaven, Earth

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Subjects, Phrase, Englishman, Concern, Affair

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Peace, Fools

• The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoyment, Conservative, Caught, Himself, Clothes

• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pursuit, Insoluble, School

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Practice, Defined

• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Tags in Enthusiastic

• The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cottage, Happy, Safe, Palace

• The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speakers and Speaking, Powerful

• The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Knowledge

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Foundation

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Kindness, Service

  Tags in Social, Evil, Excellence

• The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emperors, Kings, Everywhere

• The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Attitude, Wisdom, Wise

  Tags in Fool

• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Calamity, Gladstone, Dragged, Again, Difference

• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humankind, Improvement, Appointed, Civilization

• That fatal drollery called a representative government.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Tags in Called, Fatal

Benjamin Disraeli (202)

Birth:	21st December, 1804
Death:	19th April, 1881
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Prime Minister, Writer

About

Benjamin Disraeli played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is as of 2014 the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth.

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