Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 11

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• Fate laughs at probabilities.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Humorous, Fate

  "Eugene Aram". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book i, Chapter x, 1832.

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• Bright and illustrious illusions!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Illusion

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• Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Lucky, Needs

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• Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kissing, Beaks, Falcon

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• Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Suffering, Dear

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ocean, Science, Men

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• Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Guilt, Woe, Deeds

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• The food of hope is meditative action.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Action

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• A prudent consideration for Number One.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Numbers, Prudent, Consideration

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• Love has no thought of self!
  Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
  The loathsome prostitution of a hand
  Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
  To bless the thing it loves!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Forgiving, Pardon

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• The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cutting, Equality, Circles

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• One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, World

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• Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Hypocrite, Love Is

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• Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Eye, Speech

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• The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Want, Suits

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Passion, Men

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• Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Art, Men

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• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• Our glories float between the earth and heaven
  Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
  And are the playthings of the casual wind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Clouds, Wind, Heaven

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• Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Isis, Hands

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• A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Character, Compassion

  Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Chapter xxxiii, 1828.

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• A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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