When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
