Book Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

13 Book quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli’s observations on books carry his trademark political wit, turning a simple love of reading into a commentary on power and ambition. Even a short set shows his knack for blending humor with insight.

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Books are the curse of the human race.

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A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

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“When I want to read a book, I write one.”

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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

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A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

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Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

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I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her…

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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are…

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Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only…

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You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library…

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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton…

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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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

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Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

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Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim…

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