Quote #240
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- You have heard me accused me of being a flatterer. It is true. I am a flatterer. I have found it useful. Everyone likes flattery; and when …
- When I want to read a novel, I write one.
- You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- What usually comes first is the contract.
- Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.