Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

#Anticipation

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

#Assassination, #History

Life is too short to be small.

#Birthday, #Life

We cannot learn men from books.

#Books, #Learning, #Mankind

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular

#Custom

It is easier to be critical than correct.

#Criticism

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

#Clocks, #Day

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

#Diligence, #Virtue

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime

#Debt

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

#Delusion, #Disappointment

Despair is the conclusion of fools

#Despair

The devil is the author of confusion

#Evil