Quote #236
What usually comes first is the contract.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
- When I want to read a novel, I write one.
- We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
- Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
- William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.