Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Explore 8 approved quotes attributed to Benjamin Disraeli.

Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli — Cornelius Jabez Hughes · Public domain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · 1804 – 1881

Benjamin Disraeli wrote novels to pay his debts, entered Parliament after four failed attempts, and became Britain's only prime minister of Jewish birth. He extended the vote to much of the urban working class, bought Britain into the Suez Canal, and conducted a long public duel with Gladstone that both men enjoyed. He was a deliberate wit and a shameless flatterer of Queen Victoria. Many of the epigrams attributed to him are genuinely his, which is unusual.

Known for: Letters: 1852-1856, Sybil

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