Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Reading

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

    In W. Monypenny and G. Buckle 'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli' vol. 6 (1920) ch. 17.
  • Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

  • The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  • 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.

  • If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.17
  • 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.

    Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.245
  • Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

    "Lothair".
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Benjamin Disraeli

  • Born: December 21, 1804
  • Died: April 19, 1881
  • Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons