Isaac D'Israeli

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Isaac D'Israeli (1766 - 1848) was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, in May 1766, his father being a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Venice a dozen or so years previously. He received much of his education in Leiden and as early as his sixteenth year began his literary career with some verses to Dr. Johnson. He was the father of the British prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli.

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Curiosities of Literature, "VOLUME II", "QUOTATION."

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.
- Curiosities of Literature, "VOLUME II", "ROYAL PROMOTIONS."

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion
- Curiosities of Literature, "VOLUME II", "MODES OF SALUTATION, AND AMICABLE CEREMONIES, OBSERVED IN VARIOUS

NATIONS."

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
- Curiosities of Literature, "VOLUME II", "MODES OF SALUTATION, AND AMICABLE CEREMONIES, OBSERVED IN VARIOUS

NATIONS."

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.
- Curiosities of Literature, "VOLUME II", "LITERARY FASHIONS."

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.
- Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions, "INTRODUCTION."

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
- Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions, "CHAPTER III."

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
- Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions, "CHAPTER III."

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
- Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions, "CHAPTER IV."

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age
- Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions, "CHAPTER VIII."

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