Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes (Robert Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)

Type:
Statesman Quotes
Category:
English Statesman Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 25, 1803
Date of Death:
January 18, 1873
Nationality:
English
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Robert 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 ready when good time comes.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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