Art Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

— 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,…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

— 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…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

— 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…

— 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…

— Isaac D'Israeli

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— 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.

— 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…

— Isaac D'Israeli

One may quote till one compiles.

— 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…

— Isaac D'Israeli