Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 13

Quotes about:

• Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Liberty, Essentials, Dignity

  6 Copy quote

• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Echoes, Losing, Virtue

  7 Copy quote

• O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Humility, Pride, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Firsts, Rate

  4 Copy quote

• Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Crush, Eye, Men

  5 Copy quote

• It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Race, Democracy

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Education, University, University Education

  9 Copy quote

• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

  4 Copy quote

• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Fall, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Home, Like You

  4 Copy quote

• It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games, Finishing

  7 Copy quote

• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

  7 Copy quote

• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

  4 Copy quote

• The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Gallant, Certain

  4 Copy quote

• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Stronger

  11 Copy quote

• Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Lying, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Honesty, Hype

  8 Copy quote

• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

  7 Copy quote

• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wings, Promise, Age

  4 Copy quote

• The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Intelligence, Retail, Links

  5 Copy quote

• The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Principles, Social, Graves

  4 Copy quote

• It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games, Rivals

  4 Copy quote

• Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Lazy, Rising

  4 Copy quote

• I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Morning, Children, Men

  4 Copy quote

Page 13 of 17

First

← Prev

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin