Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

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• Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purpose, Genius, Fine

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• When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Soul, Lips, Silent

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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• The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gun, Law, Missing

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• When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Contempt, Feels

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• All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Courage, Brave, Doubt

  "King Arthur". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book XII, Chapter XXVIII, 1848-1849.

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Praise, Victim

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Secret, Vices

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, People, Principles

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

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• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Chance, Turns

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• Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Heaven, Crime

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• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Communication, Men

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• Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ornaments, Jewelry, Evidence

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• In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Health, Brain, Half

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• Women love energy and grand results.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Energy, Results

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• Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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• It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Character, Men

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• Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Childhood, Genius

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• It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Real, Enemy

  "What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

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• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Higher, Pretension, Pretence

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• Ambition has no rest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ambition

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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• A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, He Man, Merciful

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• Master books, but do not let them master you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Book, Overcoming Addiction

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