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

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• The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Giving, Silence

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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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• We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Peace, Years

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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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• In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dog, Spring, Heart

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• Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Imperfect, Shame, Break

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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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