Isaac Disraeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac Disraeli

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac Disraeli

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

— Isaac Disraeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

— Isaac Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

— Isaac Disraeli

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

— Isaac Disraeli