Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I'm here to make sense.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail completely in the House of Lords.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

Never say more than is necessary.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

It is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I have no message.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.