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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Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ornaments, Jewelry, Evidence

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Gun, Law, Missing

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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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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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Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Energy, Results

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

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Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

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Writing, Past, Landmarks

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

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Health, Brain, Half

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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.

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Friendship, Character, Men

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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

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Angel, Past, Virtue

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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Crazy, Thinking, Genius

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

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Friendship, Communication, Men

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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

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Men, People, Saint

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The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Magic, Tongue, Language

"Eugene Aram". Book I, Chapter VII, 1832.

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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.

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Abuse, Reform, Revolution

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Excellence, Wish, Desire

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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