Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Most popular Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Fate laughs at probabilities. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Fate laughs at probabilities.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

fate

The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu

famous words writing

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni

remorse

A good man does good merely by living. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A good man does good merely by living.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Goodness

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Last Days of Pompeii

enthusiasm

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Caxtons: A Family Picture

mother

'Tis at sixty a man learns how to value home. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
'Tis at sixty a man learns how to value home.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

common sense

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

genius talent talent & genius

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

vice

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture

reading

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

fate

A fool flatters himself—a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A fool flatters himself—a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pelham: Adventures of a Gentleman

foolishness

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

heart head and heart

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

love

Great men gain doubly when they make foes their friends. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Great men gain doubly when they make foes their friends.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

enemies

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets! - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets!
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Caxtons: A Family Picture

dreams

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely as praise. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely as praise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

praise

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners

mind

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

praise persuasion

The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Parisians

eloquence

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

shortcomings

Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be errors. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be errors.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

earnestness

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

revolution

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Darnley (an unfinished play)

cigars smoking

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When a man is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
When a man is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

helping others

Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth! - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Devereux

vanity truth

When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Night and Morning
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Student

conversation

When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writers as the main landmarks of the past. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writers as the main landmarks of the past.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton My Novel, or Varieties in English Life

writers

It seems to me that the coming of love is like the coming of spring; the date is not to be reckoned by the calendar. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
It seems to me that the coming of love is like the coming of spring; the date is not to be reckoned by the calendar.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Kenelm Chillingly

love

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

fame

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

literature science

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

for teachers teaching

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part which he means to be clever. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part which he means to be clever.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

conversation

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

genius talent common sense

How many of us have been incited to reason, have first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
How many of us have been incited to reason, have first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Student: A Series of Papers

aphorisms

Youth, beauty, pomp, what are these, in point of attraction, to a woman's heart, when compared to eloquence?  The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Youth, beauty, pomp, what are these, in point of attraction, to a woman's heart, when compared to eloquence?  The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram

eloquence tongue

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton What Will He Do With It

youth & age

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging.  When she knocks at your door, my son, be able to say, "No room for your ladyship—pass on." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging.  When she knocks at your door, my son, be able to say, "No room for your ladyship—pass on."
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Caxtons: A Family Picture

vice

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

reason feelings

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The House of Darnley

cigars men and women