Disraeli, Benjamin

"I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

"Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

"There is moderation even in excess."

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." - attributed

"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." - Coningsby

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

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth." - Coningsby

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." - Coningsby

"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: 'Adventures are to the adventurous.'" - Ixion in Heaven

"Never complain and never explain." - quoted in John Morley's The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

"A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy." - speech (1845)

"A precedent embalms a principle." - speech (1848)

"I say that justice is truth in action." - speech (1851)

"Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels." - speech (1864)

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable." - speech (1867)

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilisers of man." - speech (1872)

"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace-but a peace I hope with honour." - speech (1878)

"'Frank and explicit;' that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." - Sybil

"A majority is always the best repartee." - Tancred

"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us." - Vivian Grey