Books Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We cannot learn men from books.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The devil is the author of confusion

— Benjamin Disraeli