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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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 haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
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.
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!
a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
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.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
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.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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."
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
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.
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 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.