A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which… — 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
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to… — 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
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the… — 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
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — 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
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon. — 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
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — 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
