Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

• I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Marriage, Long

• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Disappointment, Failure

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

• We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Age

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

• The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Age, Characteristics, Craving

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

• Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Age, Aftermath

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

• Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Law, Age, Boots

• The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.88

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Age, Novelty

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