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Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Truth, Honesty
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Stubborn, Matter
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”

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Art, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom, Art, Philosophy
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander”, p.276

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Criticism, Literature
"The Sayings of Disraeli".

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Society, Politics
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Memories, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Artist, May
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.79

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Music, Art
Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.197

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Art, Science
Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Children, Justice
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Study, Fine
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1094, Delphi Classics