Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

There is no gambling like politics.

The world is weary of the statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I make it a rule only to believe what I understand.

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

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Something warm at last.

He is a young, sophisticated rhetorician who is inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Generally, I should say that if you preach for forty minutes, Her Majesty will be satisfied; for thirty minutes, she will be delighted; if you preach for only fifteen minutes, Her Majesty will be enthusiastic.

The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Madam, I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.

I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers.

The people are not strong: the people never can be strong. Their attempts at self-vindication will end only in their suffering and confusion.

The Tories, because they are asses, can be induced by some outstanding personality, like Disraeli, to strike out boldly from time to time, which the Liberals are incapable of doing. But when no outstanding personality is available they fall under the sway of asses, as is the case just now.

If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that would be a calamity.

What is a crime among the multitude is only a vice among the few.