Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We cannot learn men from books.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Political

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

• Books are the curse of the human race.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Race, Curse

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Great Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Children, Book

  "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Glasgow Nov. 19, 1873".

• You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Morning, Book, Library

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Classic, Acquaintance

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4093, Delphi Classics

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Battle, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4906, Delphi Classics

• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clever, Book, Reading

  "Lothair".

• Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Reading, Men

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Book, Reading

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.245

• Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Nine, Nonsense

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