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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.


Lytton Strachey

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LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell, A lady by me her compli...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and lo...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold. Like the scent...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") What's saved affords No indication of what's lost.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own sha...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a c...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feel...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON