Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

British - Writer | May 11, 1766 - January 19, 1848

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

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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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

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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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

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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

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