Isaac D'Israeli quotes

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. (Isaac D'Israeli)
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. View quote
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. View quote
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. View quote
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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. View quote
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. View quote
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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. View quote
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. (Isaac D'Israeli)
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion. View quote
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism. View quote
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. View quote
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. View quote
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. View quote
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. View quote
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. View quote
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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. View quote
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. View quote
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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)
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. View quote
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. View quote
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. View quote
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. View quote
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