Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
88 quotes by this author.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
There is no gambling like politics.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Finality is not the language of politics.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never complain and never explain.
We cannot learn men from books.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.