A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.

— Benjamin Disraeli

As for our majority... one is enough.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli