Top 22 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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

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

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

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