Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Romance
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Enthusiasm, Genius
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Experience, Wisdom, The Future, Quotations, Future
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Genius, Enthusiasm
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Books, Reading, Thinking
The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.
—Isaac D’Israeli
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John Keats English Poet
Matthew Arnold English Poet, Critic
Dante Gabriel Rossetti British Poet, Artist
Annie Besant British-born Indian Theosophist
Mary Wollstonecraft English Writer, Feminist