Quote #166
You know who critics are?- the men who have failed in literature and art.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
- 'My idea of an agreeable person,' said Hugo Bohun, 'is a person who agrees with me.'
- 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…
- Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies…
- When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
- Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.