Benjamin Disraeli Gentleman Quotations

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

The right honourable 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.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman