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
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. — 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
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on… — 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
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. — 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
