Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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.
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
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 at the onset.
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.