Benjamin Disraeli Quotes in Disraeli (1929)

Lord Charles Deeford: I do not discuss politics with women.

Benjamin Disraeli: I do.

Benjamin Disraeli: War is never a solution. It's an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli: Behold! Winter hand in hand with spring. Innocence with...

Lord Charles Deeford: [interrupts] Guile?

Benjamin Disraeli: Experience. Same thing.

Benjamin Disraeli: I tell you, a ferment is at work all over the world. Titanic forces are unchained in America, forces you have no conception of. The spirit of nationality is aroused in France, in Italy, in Germany! New wine has been poured into old bottles, and an explosion must follow sooner or later. I shall not live to see it, but I hear the seething of the yeast.

Lady Mary Beaconsfield: She thinks you're the greatest man in the world, and she's right.

Benjamin Disraeli: Quite right!

Benjamin Disraeli: I cannot break faith with the nation.

Benjamin Disraeli: A man who never makes jokes is a standing joke to the world.

Benjamin Disraeli: [to the House of Commons] By all means support this policy; by all means rally round the Prime Minister; by all means follow cheerfully and unquestioningly his leadership. All of you... who are as anxious as he to see England reduced to the standing of a third-rate power!

[His party appears to be losing the election]

Benjamin Disraeli: Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Apparently the present government have temporarily averted the danger of England taking over the leadership of the world, huh?