Quote

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

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
Never
Men
Devised
Pernicious
Treaties
Commerce
Nonsense

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
There is no diplomacy like silence.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
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
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Extreme views are never just something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli