Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Silence is the mother of truth.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

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

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

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.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

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 passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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