An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image