Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Reading

• 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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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Great

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Crime

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Doubt

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

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Secret, Spirit

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Fortune

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

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  Tags in Happy, Qualities

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lies, Mediocrity

• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Wealth

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Men

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quotations

• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Act, Created

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Men, Defects

• 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 the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves – the creature of habits and infirmities.

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  Topics in Life

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Noble, Author

• The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marked

• The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Fools, Repeat

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read, Criticism, Rarely

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

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  Topics in Age, History

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Happiness, Great

Isaac D'Israeli (22)

Birth:	11th May, 1766
Death:	19th January, 1848
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Isaac D'Israeli was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England. He was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He received much of his education in Leiden. His most popular work was a collection of essays entitled Curiosities of Literature. His book The Life and Reign of Charles I resulted in his being awarded the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University.

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