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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The curse of the great is ennui. The curse of the great is ennui.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself. The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds. Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. 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, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it. The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread. But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: What is human is immortal! What is human is immortal!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!
a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny. Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Writers are the main landmarks of the past. Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Poverty has strange bedfellows. Poverty has strange bedfellows.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The heart of a girl is like a conventthe holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. The heart of a girl is like a convent
the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise? People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: 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! 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, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill. In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular. Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,Thou wilt not laugh at poets. Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter. Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: I have wrought great use out of evil tools. I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy! Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: It is a glorious fever, desire to know. It is a glorious fever, desire to know.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day. Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it. There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Despair makes victims sometimes victors. Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The food of hope is meditative action. The food of hope is meditative action.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Grief alone can teach us what is man. Grief alone can teach us what is man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Ambition has no rest. Ambition has no rest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ... Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it. The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things. Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The classic literature is always modern. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: The Almighty proves his existence by creating. The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon. Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Expression is the mystery of beauty. Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive. Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness. Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Good humor is the sunshine of the mind. Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: He who has loved often ... has loved never. He who has loved often ... has loved never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: I did not fall into love - I rose into love. I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton quotes: A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

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