Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

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

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Reading

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

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  Tags in Read, Criticism, Rarely

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

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  Tags in Great, Men, Defects

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Noble, Author

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

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  Topics in Experience, Wisdom, Wise

  Tags in Quotations

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

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  Tags in Time, Happiness, Great

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

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  Topics in Age, History

• The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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  Tags in Fools, Repeat

• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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  Tags in Act, Created

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

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Men

• The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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  Tags in Marked

• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves – the creature of habits and infirmities.

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  Topics in Life

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

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  Tags in Lies, Mediocrity

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

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  Tags in Happy, Qualities

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Wealth

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

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Secret, Spirit

• All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Crime

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Great

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

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  Tags in Men

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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Isaac D'Israeli (22)

Birth:	11th May, 1766
Death:	19th January, 1848
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Isaac D'Israeli was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England. He was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He received much of his education in Leiden. His most popular work was a collection of essays entitled Curiosities of Literature. His book The Life and Reign of Charles I resulted in his being awarded the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University.

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