Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

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

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one's self... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength... view

By: Edward G. 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... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it... view

By: Edward G. 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... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows... view

By: Edward G. 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... view

By: 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 energy to atone... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent.. view

By: 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.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets... view

By: Edward G. 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... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

How many of us have been attracted to reason.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness.. view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton