It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find… — 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
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young… — 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
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may… — 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 Image
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 Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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 Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — 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 so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
