There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Little things affect little minds.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
The expected always happens
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Life is too short to be little.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
The canter is a cure for every evil.
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours
If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Justice is truth in action.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
There is no education like adversity.
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Success is the child of audacity.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
![You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/benjamin-disraeli-7667.jpg)
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step towards knowledge.
Books are companions even if you don't open them.
Every woman should marry ... and no man.
Departures should be sudden.
He who gains time gains everything.
There's three kinds of lies in this world: There's lies... There's damned lies..... And there's statistics
There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
Political life must be taken as you find it.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
When I want to read a good book, I write one.
It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.
