Isaac D'israeli Quotes

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents
besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not more

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents
besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is
that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to change, more

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all
sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other
authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner
that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to
recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so
skillfully shall the whole be disguised.
- Isaac D'Israeli,

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all more

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 is nearly
as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the
throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is
at least subjected to the action of the will.

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

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

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction,
while he gazes on a star, must feel more

It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction,
while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite than a farmer
who in conducting his team.
- Isaac D'Israeli,

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true
parent of genius. In all ages solitude has more

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true
parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has
been flown to.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of more

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

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

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

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