Quote #45
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
- Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
- What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
- Gentlemen, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as…
- Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
- Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.