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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. — 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
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
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
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
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — 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
