69 Quotes by Isaac Disraeli

The greater part of our writers, . . . have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.