Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Desperation Quotes

There is moderation even in excess.

There is moderation even in excess.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

Ignorance never settles a question

Ignorance never settles a question

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a...

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a...

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the...

It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the...

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must...

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must...

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities...

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities...

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat...

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat...

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is...

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is...

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot...

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians

The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both...