Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 6

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• A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Sunshine, Destiny

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• Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Power, Weapons, Calm

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• If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Wealth, Prosperity

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• Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Sleep

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• Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Love Is, Pardon

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• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Passion, Science

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• Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Numbers, Enemy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 221-22, "What Will He Do With It?" (1858), Book IX, Chapter III. Introduction, 1922.

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• The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Generations, Affection, Immortality

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• Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Knowledge, Men

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• In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Race, Fellow Man

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• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flirting, Games, Excitement

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• To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Forget You, Forget

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• 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

  Mystery, Poet, Divine

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• Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Despair, Sometimes, Desperation

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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Immortality, Truest

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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• He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Personality, Ignorant, May

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• It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Spring, Autumn

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• What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Grace

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• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Appreciation, Compliment, Ceremony

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