Benjamin Disraeli Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

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

“Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

“Without tact you can learn nothing.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

“There is no education like adversity.”