Famous Edward Bulwer Lytton Quotations

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"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Talent does what it can genius does what it must."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"'Know thyself,' said the old philosopher, 'improve thyself,' saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Art and science have their meeting point in method."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."
by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one."
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"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."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone."
by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


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