Quote

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

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
Wonderful
Greater
Speculations
Things
Comprehensive
Speculation
Sublime
Importance
Events
Least

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Turtle makes all men equal.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
To a mother, a child is everything but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli