Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac D'Israeli

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Beautiful

Circles

Perfect

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Great Work

Reading

States

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

Gratitude

Might

Research

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.

May

Men

Taken

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Poet

Poetry

Soul

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.

Book

Fading

Men

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Design

Execution

Should

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.

Great Work

Judging

Style

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Age

Golden

Iron

All this is labour which never meets the eye…. But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

Air

Eye

Research

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Common

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Contemplation

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Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac D'Israeli

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

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.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

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