Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 9

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• The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sex, Heart, Pride

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• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Dark, Nursing

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• No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Bows, Reproach

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• Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Honesty, Men, Gentleman

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• Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Soul, Principles, Should

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• Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
  Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Love Is, Laughing

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mean, Political

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• In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Book, Science

  "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners". Book by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862.

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• When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Anger, Sound, Calm

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Positive, Enthusiasm

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Music, Piano, Soul

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• The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Pain, New Beginnings, Pleasure

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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Nature, Character, Authorship

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• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Men, Soul

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• The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Ambition, Two

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• The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Long, Poetry, Pages

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• The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Practice, Essentials

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• A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Ancestry, Property

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• There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Good Man, World

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• What is human is immortal!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Immortality, Immortal, Humans

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• A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fake Friends, Pressure, Pleasure

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• The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Destiny, Men, Civilization

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• The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Judging, Intellectual, Excellence

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