Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on World (17 Quotes)

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

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

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.

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists

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.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

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.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

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

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.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

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

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.