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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 penaltyjealousy. — 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 speakAs 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
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