--- title: "12 Books Quotes By Isaac D'Israeli" description: "12 Books quotes by Isaac D'Israeli. Plus more from Isaac D'Israeli and more Books sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and_946556.png" --- > [But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and-we-love-manuscripts-better/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and_946556.png) > [Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s-happiness-only-enlarges-the/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s_1616620.png) > [ Beware of the man of one book. \[Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/beware-of-the-man-of-one-book-lat-home-unius-libri-or-cave-ab-homine/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_beware-of-the-man-of-one-book-lat-home-u_1678065.png) > [The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-most-noble-criticism-is-that-in-which-the-critic-is-not-the/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa6/isaac-d-israeli-9355_antagonist_the-most-noble-criticism-is-that-in-whic_2882121.png) > [It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/it-is-fortunate-that-literature-is-in-no-ways-injured-by-the-follies/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c90/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_it-is-fortunate-that-literature-is-in-no_3105464.png) > [A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/a-work-however-should-be-judged-by-its-design-and-its-execution-and/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_a-work-however-should-be-judged-by-its-d_979485.png) > [After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/after-all-it-is-style-alone-by-which-posterity-will-judge-of-a-great/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a99/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_after-all-it-is-style-alone-by-which-pos_1853664.png) > [Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/great-collections-of-books-are-subject-to-certain-accidents-besides/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b9/isaac-d-israeli-9355_accidents_great-collections-of-books-are-subject-t_3184155.jpg) > [A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/a-well-read-writer-with-good-taste-is-one-who-has-the-command-of-the/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81d/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_a-well-read-writer-with-good-taste-is-on_751986.png) > [Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/enthusiasm-is-that-secret-and-harmonious-spirit-which-hovers-over-the/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_enthusiasm-is-that-secret-and-harmonious_503875.png) > [The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-art-of-quotation-requires-more-delicacy-in-the-practice-than-3/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/isaac-d-israeli-9355_art_the-art-of-quotation-requires-more-delic_2750443.png) > [Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/such-do-not-always-understand-the-authors-whose-names-adorn-their/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bb/isaac-d-israeli-9355_altered_such-do-not-always-understand-the-author_2493258.png) ## Other authors on Books - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 184 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/neil-gaiman/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 169 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 165 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-woolf-93906.jpg) Virginia Woolf 152 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/virginia-woolf/) - [Mark Twain 152 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 152 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 146 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/terry-pratchett/) - [Jarod Kintz 124 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/jarod-kintz/) - [Samuel Johnson 116 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-haruki-murakami-40784.jpg) Haruki Murakami 110 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/haruki-murakami/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 107 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/henry-david-thoreau/) ## More by Isaac D'Israeli > [Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/happy-the-man-when-he-has-not-the-defects-of-his-qualities/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/bayle-when-writing-on-comets-discovered-this-for-having-collected/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/those-who-do-not-read-criticism-will-rarely-merit-to-be-criticised/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/it-is-generally-supposed-that-where-there-is-no-quotation-there-will/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/fortune-has-rarely-condescended-to-be-the-companion-of-genius/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-ancients-who-in-these-matters-were-not-perhaps-such-blockheads-as/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/style-style-why-all-writers-will-tell-you-that-it-is-the-very-thing/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/there-is-an-art-of-reading-an-art-of-thinking-and-an-art-of-writing/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-art-of-quotation-requires-more-delicacy-in-the-practice-than/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/enthusiasm-is-that-secret-and-harmonious-spirit-which-hovers-over-the/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [One may quote till one compiles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/one-may-quote-till-one-compiles/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/theories-of-genius-are-the-peculiar-constructions-of-our-own/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/this-is-one-of-the-results-of-that-adventurous-spirit-which-is-now/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-great-man-who-thinks-greatly-of-himself-is-not-diminishing-that/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) > [Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/miscellanists-are-the-most-popular-writers-among-every-people-for-it/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/isaac-d-israeli/#itemlist", "name": "12 Books Quotes By Isaac D'Israeli", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Isaac D'Israeli" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and-we-love-manuscripts-better/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and_946556.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and_946556.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/isaac-d-israeli-9355_book_but-indeed-we-prefer-books-to-pounds-and_946556.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small…” — Isaac D'Israeli", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Isaac D'Israeli" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s-happiness-only-enlarges-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s_1616620.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s_1616620.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/isaac-d-israeli-9355_books_time-the-great-destroyer-of-other-men-s_1616620.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.” — Isaac D'Israeli", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Beware of the man of one book. 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