Quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Words, however, are things.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Life hath set No landmarks before us.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton