Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

#1. Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#2. Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#3. A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#4. We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#5. Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#6. There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#7. Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#8. When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#9. Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#10. Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#11. One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#12. The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#13. How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

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#14. Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#15. What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#16. O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#17. A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#18. There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#19. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#20. It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#21. What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#22. I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#23. Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#24. The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#25. If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#26. Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#27. No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton