Book Quote by Benjamin Disraeli Download Open image “Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.” — Benjamin Disraeli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Nine Nonsense
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that had been bought by millions, but had been demonstrated to have been read by only a minute proportion of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
