Top 22 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

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

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.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

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

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

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.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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.

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