Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton's Quotes

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton's Quotes 23

A fool flatters himself a wise man flatters the fool.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories...

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application...

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest....

We tell our triumphs to the crowds but our own hearts are the sole...

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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect...

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced...

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye looking...

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Love thou the rose yet leave it on its stem.

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

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow...

If thou be industrious to procure wealth be generous in the disposal of it....

What is past is past there is a future left to all men who have the virtue...

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to...

Dream manfully and nobly and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest...

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires...

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

In life as in art the beautiful moves in curves.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often...

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