Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Download Open image ““Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?”” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I respect ordinary thieves much more than I respect politicians. Ordinary thieves take my money without pretense. Unlike typical politicians, these thieves don’t bore me with silly explanations of why their thievery is for the greater good. Nor do ordinary thieves insult my intelligence by proclaiming that they’ll use the money that they steal from me to make my life… — Walter Williams Copy Share
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“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“When you choose a thief and make them your leader. Their lives are improving to be better and better. They get rich and richer while you get poor and poorer. The city, town, province, country will decays and everything will fall apart. People lives getting much worse. While your leader will be flexing and living the dream. They will be… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share
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“No path between the stranger’s home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than mind; not as when youth discovers the one to be beloved, but rather as when the student, long wandering after the clew to some truth in science, sees it glimmer dimly before him, to beckon, to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady asserters of woman rights above ground. They claim the privilege, here usurped by men, of proclaiming their love and urging their suit; in other words, of being the wooing party rather than the wooed. Such a phenomenon as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they made war either for a domain or an idea. Though the various states acknowledged various forms of government, free institutions were beginning to preponderate; popular assemblies increased in power; republics soon became general; the democracy to which the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at the thought of descending further and braving the inhabitants of this nether valley. Nor indeed could I have done so without ropes, as from the spot I had reached to the bottom of the chasm the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“But why should you wish to leave a state of society which you so politely allow to be more felicitous than your own?” “Oh, Aph-Lin! My answer is plain. Lest in naught, and unwittingly, I should betray your hospitality; lest, in the caprice of will which in our world is proverbial among the other sex, and from which even a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not to be proclaimed till the success was won, and the daughter had united her father's triumph with her own! And there she stands, as all souls bow before her,—fairer than the very Siren he had called from the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it partly that kind of practical philosophy which, reducing Egotism to a system, looks upon society as a war of cunning; success the rule of right and wrong, honesty as an affair of taste or decency: and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the rest of its attire was composed of an under tunic and leggings of some thin fibrous material. It wore on its head a kind of tiara that shone with jewels, and carried in its right hand a slender… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which it sprang, in the clefts of the rock; choked up and walled round by crags and buildings, by Nature and man, its life has been one struggle for the light,—light which makes to that life the necessity and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share
