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Him Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime…
- How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill…
- Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within…
- Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
- I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and…
- A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation…
- Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than…
- There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
- One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden