Benjamin Disraeli — "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

"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 outsta…"

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"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."

"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."

"We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results."