Isaac Disraeli Men Quotations

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

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

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.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

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.

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.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]