You know who critics are? – the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
“Frank and explicit;” that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. (On Robert Peel’s government)
