Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
254
AUTHOR:
Benjamin Disraeli (180481)
QUOTATION:
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
ATTRIBUTION:
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Endymion (vol. 20 of The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield), chapter 85, p. 153 (1904, reprinted 1976). Originally published 1880.