My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
It is easier to be critical than correct.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
London is a roost for every bird.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Travel teaches toleration.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
We cannot learn men from books.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Success is the child of audacity.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
London is a modern Babylon.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
