Benjamin Disraeli

Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.

Success is the child of audacity.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

"What is care?" asked the Princess, with a smile. "It is a god", replied the Physician, "invisible, but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse — it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair grey".

I come forward as the supporter of that great interest which is the only solid basis of the social fabric, and, convinced that the sound prosperity of this country depends upon the protected industry of the farmer, I would resist that …

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of …

I shall withhold my support from every Ministry which will not originate some great measure to ameliorate the condition of the lower orders.

I am neither Whig nor Tory. My politics are described by one word, and that word is ENGLAND.

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

There is moderation even in excess.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.

The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.