Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 17

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• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Heart, Men

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• In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Law, Style, Literature

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• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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• It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sympathy, Mind, May

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• One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, Fifty, Worn

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• Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  And Love, Midnight, Youth

  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Rewards

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