Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”

“Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.”

“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 pa...”

“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”

“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

“Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”

“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

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

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”