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
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
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
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
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
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
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — 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
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
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
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
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
Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
