Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 7

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• Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sunshine, Mind, Disposition

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• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Disappointment, Disappointed Love, Greater

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• Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Nerves, Opinion

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• We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Rushing, Weakness

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• A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Eye, Heart

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• Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Hands, Maids

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• It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Country, Dog, Kindness

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• Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Gentleman, Doe

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• There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Selfishness, Want, Sensitive

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• Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Punctuality, Virtue

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• Genius has no brother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Brother, Genius

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• Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Jealousy, Strong, Men

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• The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Voice, Giving, Sneezing

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• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

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  Wise, Humble, Advice

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• The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, People, Wife

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• Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Dull, Genius

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• Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Believe, Soul

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• The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mountain, Moles, World

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• Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lonely, Mind, Punctuality

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• Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

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  Innocence, Poor, Substitutes

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• Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Soldier, Honor

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• Expression is the mystery of beauty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Expression, Mystery

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• We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Stars, Ocean

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