Quotes by Isaac Disraeli

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.
– Isaac Disraeli
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
– Isaac Disraeli
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
– Isaac Disraeli
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.
– Isaac Disraeli
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
– Isaac Disraeli
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
– Isaac Disraeli
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
– Isaac Disraeli
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
– Isaac D'Israeli
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
– Isaac D'Israeli