Benjamin Disraeli

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

“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”

“There can be economy only where there is efficiency.”

“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”

“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

“The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.”

“There is moderation even in excess.”

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”

“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”

“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”

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

“Finality is not the language of politics.”

“Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”

“There is no gambling like politics.”

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”

“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”