Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

... an old man in a hurry.

[British Prime Minister William] Gladstone is a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination, that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign his opponents, and glorify himself.