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Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: A poet is a painter of the soul.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Beware of the man of one book.[Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Beware of the man of one book.
[Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: There is a society in the deepest solitude.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ...

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ...

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: One may quote till one compiles.

One may quote till one compiles.

Isaac D'Israeli quotes: The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.