Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Never complain and never explain.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Advice, Complaining

  In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.

• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

• The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Hypocrisy, Political

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

• In politics, nothing is contemptible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Nerd, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

• What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Failure, Political, Politics

  "Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Democracies Have, Political, Historical

  "Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Gambling, Politics

• The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Political, Politics

• No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Long, Political

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 1

• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Language

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

• A precedent embalms a principle.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Justice, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

• 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

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

• Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Power, Tolerance

• An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Powerful, Fog

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

• We cannot learn men from books.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Political

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

• The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Discipline, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.26

• You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Valuable

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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