Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Hypocrisy, Political

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

• In politics, nothing is contemptible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Nerd, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Democracies Have, Political, Historical

  "Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Gambling, Politics

• The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Political, Politics

• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Language

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Majority, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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