Isaac D'Israeli

Quotes

• “Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.”
• “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
• “Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.”
• “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.”
• “To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.”
• “The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.”

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