I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.


Speech at banquet given by the city of Glasgow to Disraeli on his inauguration as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (19 November 1870), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 16.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.