Pericles Quote by 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 to ours.”

— 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 hung with…

— 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 heart than…

— 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 asserters of…

— 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 made war…

— 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 shuddered at…

— 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 own?” “Oh,…

— 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 to be…

— 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 to it…

— 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 give place…

— 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 rest of…

— 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 it sprang,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton