Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Fame

4 quotes

  1. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

  2. Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

  3. The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

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

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