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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.
— John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
— William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done.
— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke
Of two evils, choose the more interesting.
— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?
— Assegid Habtewold
The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty
jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.
— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
— Hudson Taylor
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.
— Lois Greiman
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The deepest rivers make least din.
— William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Can every anguish calmly bear.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
You speak
As one who fed on poetry. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
As one who fed on poetry. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Grief alone can teach us what is man.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery
Ambition has no rest.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.
— Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
— Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed
Nothing ages like laziness.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.
— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.
— Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl Of Swinton
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.
— Ramon Maria Narvaez, 1st Duke Of Valencia
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thought alone is eternal
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.
— William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.
— William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
We like the gift when we the giver prize.
— John Sheffield, 1st Duke Of Buckingham And Normanby
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
— John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
— Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!
— Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
War is a crime which involves all other crimes.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ...
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Women love energy and grand results.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton