Top 50 Robert Bulwer Lytton Quotes
#1. Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.
#2. We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
#3. Rest is sweet after strife.
#4. No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.
#5. Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?
#6. Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
#7. You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
#8. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
#9. Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!
#10. We are but as the instrument of heaven.
#11. That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
#12. We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.
#13. In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
#14. Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
#15. There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.
#16. No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
#17. Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
#18. Thought alone is eternal
#19. No true love there can be without Its dread penalty
jealousy.
#20. Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
#21. We may live without friends; we may live without books
But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
#22. They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.
#23. Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.
#24. Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.
#25. The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
#26. The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
#27. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
#28. Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
#29. Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God.
#30. Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
#31. I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
And having known you, love you better still.
#32. However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.
#33. There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
#34. 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.
#35. When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
#36. It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
#37. Life hath set
No landmarks before us.
#38. 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.
#39. Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.
#40. Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.
#41. No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
#42. Life is good, but not life in itself.
#43. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
#44. That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
#45. Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.
#46. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
#47. Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?
#48. Words, however, are things.
#49. If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
#50. The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day
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