Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

England is unrivalled for two things__sport and politics.

Millstones around our neck.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

I believe they went out, like all good things, with the Stuarts.

‘Sensible men are all the same religion.’ ‘And pray what is that ?’ inquired the prince. ‘Sensible men never tell.’

What all men should avoid is the ‘shabby genteel’. No man ever gets over it… You had better be in rags.

You must dress according to your age, your pursuits, your object in life.

His Christianity was muscular.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you peace__but a peace, I hope, with honour.

Gladstone, like Richelieu, cannot write. Nothing can be more unmusical, more involved, or more uncouth than all his scribblement.

I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

‘My idea of an agreeable person,’ said Hugo Bohun, ‘is a person who agrees with me.’

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Every woman should marry__and no man.