Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes (40 Quotes)

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman

Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.

There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise

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

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

It was a dark and stormy night and 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 fierce

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour

If the whole be greater than a part of him man must be greater than that part of him which is found in a book

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.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Patience is not passive on the contrary, it is active it is concentrated strength

Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife

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.

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.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude To bear is to conquer our fate.

What mankind wants is not talent it is purpose.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.