Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Action)

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Age and Aging)

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Age and Aging)

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Agents)

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Agreement)

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Alliances)

Amusement to an observing mind is study. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Amusement)

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Anecdotes)

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Assassination)

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Biography)

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Books - Reading)

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Books - Reading)

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Bores and Boredom)

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. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Candor)

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. - (Disraeli, Benjamin - Candor)