Quotations From BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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• 1.

  That fatal drollery called a representative government.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Tancred, bk. 2, ch. 13 (1847).
• 2.

  We moralise among ruins.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Tancred, bk. 5, ch. 5 (1847).
• 3.

  "Frank and explicit"Mthat is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author, prime minister. "The Gentleman in Downing Street," bk. 6, ch. 1, Sybil (1845).
• 4.

  The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman and author. Contarini Fleming, pt. 5, ch. 10 (1832).
• 5.

  Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. speech to House of Commons (Feb. 16, 1844). Hansard, col. 1016.
  
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• 6.

  When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Lothair, ch. 28 (1870).
  
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• 7.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Henrieta Temple, pt. 4, ch. 1 (1837).
  
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• 8.

  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Quoted by Mark Twain in his Autobiography, ch. 29, Mark Twain (1924), rev. Charles Neider (1959). The words have never been found among Disraeli's works; alternative attributions include the radical journalist and politician Henry Labouchère (1831-1912).
• 9.

  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 fervour.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Coningsby, bk.7, ch. 2 (1844).
  
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• 10.

  Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

  Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Coningsby, bk. 7, ch. 5 (1844).
  
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