Isaac D'Israeli

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it…

— Isaac D'Israeli

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour…

— Isaac D'Israeli

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and…

— Isaac D'Israeli

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

— Isaac D'Israeli

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the…

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

— Isaac D'Israeli

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has…

— Isaac D'Israeli

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had…

— Isaac D'Israeli

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly…

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

— Isaac D'Israeli

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...

— Isaac D'Israeli

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page…

— Isaac D'Israeli