“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”

— Benjamin Disraeli, Popanilla, 1827, Ch. 7

About Benjamin Disraeli

1804 – 1881

British statesman, twice Prime Minister, and novelist.

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”