Life is too short to be small.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Birthday Quotes, Life Quotes

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is...

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is...

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated...

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated...

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

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

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a...

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a...

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with...

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with...

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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

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

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.