Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
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.
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.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
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.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
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.
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.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
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.
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.