Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. – Isaac Disraeli
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. – Isaac DIsraeli
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. – Isaac D’Israeli
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. – Isaac Disraeli
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman