69 Quotes by Isaac Disraeli

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

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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

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