Quote #244
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- 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 …
- Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
- Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
- William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
- Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.