Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about Reading

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Clever, Book, Reading

"Lothair".

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Inspiration, Reading, Writing

In W. Monypenny and G. Buckle 'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli' vol. 6 (1920) ch. 17.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading, Age, Novelty

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading, Punctuation, Accents

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

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

Reading, Knowledge, Historical

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