Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 10

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Book, Science

  "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners". Book by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862.

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mean, Political

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• Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Men, Soul

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• The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Practice, Essentials

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Long, Poetry, Pages

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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Blow

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Music, Piano, Soul

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• The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Ambition, Two

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• People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, People, Vain

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Yesterday, Mind, Body

  "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Passion, Common

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• A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Ancestry, Property

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• It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Doors, Brain, Vices

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• The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, World, Language

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• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Long, People

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• Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  May, Fiction, Said

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fall, Desire, Bed

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• Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Pain, Vanity, Suffering

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• The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Clever, Mean, Men

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• How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Unjust, Littles

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• The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weed, Heart, Men

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• Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ambition, Eye, Air

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• Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Death, Shepherds

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• In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Greek, Persuasion

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