Benjamin Disraeli Quotes: 25

• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

• 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.

• Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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

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

• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

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

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

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

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

• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

• 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.

• When I want to read a novel, I write one.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.