All Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
- Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. Enthusiasm
- Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. Companion
- Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… Always Leaves
- Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. Becomes
- 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… Amusement
- To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Constitute
- Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. Events
- The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. Act
- Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius. Enthusiasm
- There is a society in the deepest solitude. Deepest
- The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. Age
- If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most… Entered
- Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. Abuse
- The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Educated
- There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Art
- The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Consolation
- An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. Age
- Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers... Bright
- The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… Ancients
- All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original… Afforded
- A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… Agreeable
- 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… Art
- It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… According
- This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only… Adventurous
- Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they… Abuse