Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“No path between the stranger’s home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“But why should you wish to leave a state of society which you so politely allow to be more felicitous than your…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“A Gy wears wings habitually when yet a virgin—she joins the Ana in their aerial sports—she adventures alone and afar into the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“But among this people there can be no doubt about the rights of women, because, as I have before said, the Gy,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“From the past they turn to the future. Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Alas,” said Zee, “this predominance of the few over the many is the surest and most fatal sign of a race incorrigibly…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“What is the vril?” I asked. Therewith Zee began to enter into an explanation of which I understood very little, for there…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“One might have supposed one’s self at an opera in listening to the voices in my aviary. There were duets and trios,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“But the effects of the alleged discovery of the means to direct the more terrible force of vril were chiefly remarkable in…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! —…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Many a time when I sat in the balcony, or hanging garden, on which my window opened, I have watched her rising…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton