Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Man (41 Quotes)

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

A great thing is a great book but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

I have always thought that every woman should marry - and no man.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

'As for that,' said Waldenshare, 'sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'Pray, what is that' inquired the Prince. 'Sensible men never tell.'

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Men moralise among ruins, or, in the throng and tumult of successful cities, recall past visions of urban desolation for prophetic warning.

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

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

With words we govern men.

It is well known what a middle man is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other

It was not reason that besieged Troy it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world that inspired the crusades that instituted the monastic orders it was not reason that produced the Jesuits above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Books are fatal they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with the title deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.