Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 4

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• The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Men, Purpose

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• The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Angel, Night

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• Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Doe, Genius

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• The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Creating, Almighty, Existence

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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Virtue

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• Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Men, Perfect

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• Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Disgrace

  "Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act IV, scene 1, 1839.

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• In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Science, Judgement, Literature

  Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers'

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• Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Creative, Genius, Taste

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• Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Busy, Indolence

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• Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Appearance, Jackets

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• I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Falling In Love, Fall

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• Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Next, Mystery

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• In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fear, Passion, Agonizing

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• He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosopher, Advantage, Trifles

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• There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Aristocracy, Wealth, Democratic

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Evil, Literature, Doom

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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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• A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Mind, Half

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• People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  People, Criticism, Faces

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Play, Skills

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• Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flower, Rose, Stem

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

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