Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Isaac D'Israeli
Isaac D'Israeli Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
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.
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.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
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.
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.