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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON --To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banq...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Time is money.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Never say "Fail" again.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publi...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckonin...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON You speak As one who fed on poetry.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from t...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their gr...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Bo...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Ambition has no rest!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
VICTORIA LAMB Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolu...
RANDAL CREMER At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell ...
RANDAL CREMER In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast a...
TONY BENN Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
TONY BENN The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. T...
DAVID HUNT The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttere...
WILLIAM COBBETT I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it'...
TONY BENN The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like ...
TONY BENN I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
ISAAC WATTS I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
WILLIAM COBBETT I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more ti...
TONY BENN Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
FRANCIS ATTERBURY If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increas...
DAVID HUNT Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
WILLIAM COBBETT I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be...
JOHN HAWLEY Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reforma...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
HENRY ST. JOHN If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniv...
JOHN HAWLEY Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, an...
KEN LIVINGSTONE I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have conscio...
KEN LIVINGSTONE I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo con...
ANNE CAMPBELL Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
KEN LIVINGSTONE Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
GEORGE VILLIERS The civil service are risk averse.
KEN LIVINGSTONE I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, orga...
KEN LIVINGSTONE My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or qui...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to n...
THOMAS COCHRANE The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be...
WILLIAM COBBETT If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly no...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

More Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON --To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banq...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Time is money.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literatu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Never say "Fail" again.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publi...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckonin...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON You speak As one who fed on poetry.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from t...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their gr...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Bo...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Ambition has no rest!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
EDWARD 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 BULWER-LYTTON Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and v...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts i...
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be dr...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Art and science have their meeting point in method.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own sh...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it w...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which m...
EDWARD 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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON 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 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 There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
EDWARD G. 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 G. BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy a...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate laughs at probabilities
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to wan...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Revolutions are not made with rosewater
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And swe...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Humor is the sunshine of the mind
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON