English author & politician (1803-1873)
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
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The Wit and Wisdom of E. Bulwer-Lytton
When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
England and the English
Oh! beautiful is the love of youth to youth, and touching the tenderness of womanhood to woman; and fair in the eyes of the happy sun is the waking of holy sleep, and the virgin kiss upon virgin lips smiling and murmuring the sweet "Good morrow!"
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Last of the Barons
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pelham
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pausanias, the Spartan
The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Student: A Series of Papers
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions
Alone! -- that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The New Timon
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Last of the Barons
Read to live, not live to read.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Caxtons
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
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Night and Morning
Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana