12 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Character

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on character

81. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

96. A man's fate is his own temper.

120. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

140. Little things affect little minds.

152. There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

186. A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

190. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

191. Charles Greville was the most conceited person with whom I have ever been brought in contact, though I have read Cicero and known Bulwer-Lytton.

227. The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth. (On Robert Peel)

240. William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

243. You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

266. What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.