Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Respect, Character, Reality

• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Generations, Vanishing

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.305

• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Jobs, War

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

• What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Sentiments

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

• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Party, Government

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Opinion

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

• A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.472, BoD – Books on Demand

• The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Eye, Society, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4092, Delphi Classics

• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Revolution, Opinion, Rebellious

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2490, Delphi Classics

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