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
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.
greatness men thinking
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
book men fading
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.
men dunces consolation
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
men care golden
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.
men thinking two
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
real men golden
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
happiness men literature
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
men quality faults
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
men genius arise
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
taken men may
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
book home men
Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]
create fools fools-and-foolishness repeat wise
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
american-celebrity experience preserved wisdom
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.