--- title: "13 Men Quotes By Isaac D'Israeli" description: "13 Men quotes by Isaac D'Israeli. Plus more from Isaac D'Israeli and more Men sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/isaac-d-israeli-9355_arise_many-men-of-genius-must-arise-before-a-p_2648933.png" --- > [Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/many-men-of-genius-must-arise-before-a-particular-man-of-genius-can/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/isaac-d-israeli-9355_arise_many-men-of-genius-must-arise-before-a-p_2648933.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/isaac-d-israeli-9355_fire_the-great-man-who-thinks-greatly-of-hims_693581.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/isaac-d-israeli-9355_defects_happy-the-man-when-he-has-not-the-defect_147032.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 defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-defects-of-great-men-are-the-consolation-of-the-dunces/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a7/isaac-d-israeli-9355_consolation_the-defects-of-great-men-are-the-consola_2942758.png) > [A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/a-nickname-a-man-may-chance-to-wear-out-but-a-system-of-calumnity/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/isaac-d-israeli-9355_calumny_a-nickname-a-man-may-chance-to-wear-out_1512051.png) > [To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/to-think-and-to-feel-constitute-the-two-grand-divisions-of-men-of/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/isaac-d-israeli-9355_division_to-think-and-to-feel-constitute-the-two_2841164.png) > [If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/if-the-golden-gate-of-preferment-is-not-usually-opened-to-men-of-real/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/113/isaac-d-israeli-9355_extraordinary_if-the-golden-gate-of-preferment-is-not_1167171.png) > [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) > [The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-golden-hour-of-invention-must-terminate-like-other-hours-and-when/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/isaac-d-israeli-9355_amusement_the-golden-hour-of-invention-must-termin_2549183.jpg) > [The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/the-art-of-meditation-may-be-exercised-at-all-hours-and-in-all-places/) [Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/isaac-d-israeli-9355_art_the-art-of-meditation-may-be-exercised-a_3054956.png) > [Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/isaac-d-israeli-9355_action_style-style-why-all-writers-will-tell-yo_448509.png) ## Other authors on Men - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 1,027 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 710 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 463 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 378 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Samuel Johnson 361 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/samuel-johnson/) - [Mark Twain 354 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 354 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 349 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/ayn-rand/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 332 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-ward-beecher-41729.jpg) Henry Ward Beecher 289 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/henry-ward-beecher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 283 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 278 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/swami-vivekananda/) ## 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/men/isaac-d-israeli/#itemlist", "name": 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