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“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

Benjamin Disraeli

The Infernal Marriage, part 3 (1834).
Books

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

Benjamin Disraeli book Tancred

Bk. IV, Ch. 8.
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate…our party. … I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 289.

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variant: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

Benjamin Disraeli

The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
Books

“The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Speech to Wynyard Horticultural Show (1848), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 709.
1840s

“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1860/jan/24/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-speech in the House of Commons (24 January 1860); see also Lord Byron, &quot;Notes to Canto II&quot; (1812), Childe Harold&#x27;s Pilgrimage: &quot;How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct&quot;. <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Variant: How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Part 5, Chapter 18.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Part 1, Chapter 13; sometimes paraphrased: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Cited in Herbert Henry Asquith, Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 94.
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Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."

“The microcosm of a public school.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Book I, Chapter 2.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845).”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Isaac D'Isaeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli