26 Quotes filtered by Benjamin Disraeli
If a traveller were informed that such a man were leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect.
Benjamin Disraeli
On Lord John Russell
Category: Insulting Liberals
No Government can be long secure wihtout a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Opposition, What is Government
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Conviction
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Marriage
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Benjamin Disraeli 1868
After his defeat to the Liberals.
Category: What is a Political Party?
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Benjamin Disraeli 1834
On being passed over for office when Peel became PM in 1834.
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship
I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
Benjamin Disraeli 1877
On life in the House of Lords.
Category: House of Lords
A Conservative Government is an organsied hyposcrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli 17/03/1845
Category: Conservative Governments
A sound Conservative Government? I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.
Benjamin Disraeli 1844
Category: Conservative Governments
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: English Identity, What is a Political Party?
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
Benjamin Disraeli 1868
On becoming Prime Minister
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Prime Minister (Office of)
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli 01/05/1865
Category: Murder
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you peace - but a peace i hope with honour.
Benjamin Disraeli 07/1878
Returning from the Congress of Berlin.
Category: Peace
His temper, naturally morose, has become licentiously peevish. Crossed in his Cabinet, he insults the House of Lords, and plagues the most eminent of his colleagues with the crabbed malice of a maundering witch.
Benjamin Disraeli
On Lord Aberdeen.
Category: Insulting Conservatives
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli 1878
On Gladstone
Category: Insulting Liberals
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipalled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hyposcrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
On William Gladstone
Category: Insulting Liberals
