Isaac D'Israeli Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Men, Fading

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

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Happiness, Men, Literature

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter XXII, 1922.

• But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Horse, War, Book

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.

• There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Fashion, Cutting, Literature

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

• It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Literature, Way, Folly

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