64 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

One may quote till one compiles.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...