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 Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
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… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
