Isaac Disraeli
Isaac Disraeli
Isaac D'Israeliwas 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...
Isaac Disraeli quotes about
create fools fools-and-foolishness repeat wise
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
courage famous plant popularity progress resisted seemed suspected taste though
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and establishing its
natural sentiments oneself
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
literature way folly
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.
wise art eye
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
criticism candour gems
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
men style pulse
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.
lovers action ceremony
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
horse war book
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
greatness men thinking
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
fashion cutting literature
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
latin greek quiver
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...
spring taken hands
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.