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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Political, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli
Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli
Failure, Political, Politics
"Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

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

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Political, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Nerd, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Remember
Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination, Politics, Opponents
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: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Benjamin Disraeli
Principles, Politics, Trade

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Society, Politics
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Political, Politics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Majority, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Benjamin Disraeli
Clever, Political, Politics

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Benjamin Disraeli
Power, Gambling, Politics

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

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

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Political, Politics
To Matthew Arnold, in G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 23

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Phrases, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

As for our majority... one is enough.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Majority, Politics
"Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 64, 1880.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Language
'Hansard' 28 February 1859

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Gladstone
"Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Differences, Would Be, Politics

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Benjamin Disraeli
Principles, Politics, Motto
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

Party is organized opinion.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Politics, Opinion
Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

There is no gambling like politics.

Benjamin Disraeli
Gambling, Political, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

Information upon points of practical politics.

Benjamin Disraeli
Politics, Information, Practicals
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics