Quote #25
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- Finality is not the language of politics.
- Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
- This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have…
- He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
- Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
- Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.