Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

#1. Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#2. You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#3. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#4. Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#5. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#6. 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 excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#7. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#8. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

#9. If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton