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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. — Lytton Strachey

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
Leave no stone unturned. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty
jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Englishmen have always loved Moliere. — Lytton Strachey

We may live without friends; we may live without books
But civilized men cannot live without cooks. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The food of hope is meditative action. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron 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. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God. — Lytton Strachey

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. — Lytton Strachey

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — 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

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

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Nothing ages like laziness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are but as the instrument of heaven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. — Benjamin Disraeli

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You speak
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

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey

If this is dying, I don't think much of it. — Lytton Strachey

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — 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

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton