Quote

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

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
Perhaps
Bears
Destiny

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
Religion is civilization, the highest.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Life is too short to be little.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
He was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I rather like bad wine one gets so bored with good wine.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
Benjamin Disraeli