Quote #171
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.
- I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing…
- Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
- Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies…
- As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- 'My idea of an agreeable person,' said Hugo Bohun, 'is a person who agrees with me.'
- An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.