"A self-made man, who worships his creator."
— John Bright on Benjamin Disraeli (originally)
"Yes, I am a Jew — and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."
— Benjamin Disraeli in a bit of Cultural Posturing in an open letter in The Times in 1835, addressed to Daniel O'Connellnote . This is probably apocryphal though.
"You don't even know who I am!"
— Benjamin Disraeli on his status in pop culture, Family Guy
"Life is too short to be small."
— Benjamin Disraeli, his answer to the Earl of Aberdeen about why he wrote novels as well as being a Member of Parliament.
