Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Strategy
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To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
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The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.
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The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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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 you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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...a man who is never beaten. Every reverse, every defeat is to him only an admonition to wait and catch his opportunity of retrieving his position.