Quote

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
Biographer
Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Novelist
Politician
Writer
London
England
1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Disraeli
Dizzy
People
Lack
Fortune
Ambition
Limits
Undistinguished
Virtue
Console
Called
Moderation
Great
Limit
Men
Merit

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
We are taught words, not ideas.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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
Image
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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
Image
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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
Image
Nature is stronger than education.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli