Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli

• Criticism
• Author
• Noble
• Antagonist

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Judge

• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

  

  Barney Ross
  • People
  • Me
  • Lucky

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Control
  • Rich
  • Partner

• My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Serious

• I really love traveling, I love playing.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Playing
  • Traveling

• And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

  

  William Blake
  • Tears
  • Fears
  • Smiles

• We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Criticism

• When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

  

  Will Self
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Criticism

• I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism
  • Author
  • Noble