Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Trust, Time, Truth

  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”

• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

• The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Youth, Trustees

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

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

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

• I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Ethos, Forget

  Said to Lord Esher of his relations with Queen Victoria, in Elizabeth Longford 'Victoria R. I' (1964) ch. 27

• Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time

  Benjamin Disraeli's maiden speech in the House of Commons, December 7, 1837.

• 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

• Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Powerful

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.52

• I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

• Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Men, Race

• Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Time, Teenage

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Waste, Eternity

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

• 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 services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Military, Fool

• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Believe, Maturity

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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