110+ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes On Romantic, Melodramatic And Historical

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was a British novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a popular writer in the Victorian era and is best known for his historical novels such as The Last Days of Pompeii and Rienzi, as well as the play The Lady of Lyons. He was also the Secretary of State for the Colonies and served in Parliament from 1831 to 1841. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton on life, love, romantic.

Top 10 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
4. He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
5. Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
6. Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
7. A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
8. A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
9. Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
10. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Short Quotes

• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
• We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
• Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
• Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
• Master books, but do not let them master you.
• Fate laughs at probabilities.
• Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
• Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Life

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Love

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Famous Quotes And Sayings

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Expression is the mystery of beauty. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The classic literature is always modern. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ambition has no rest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing ages like laziness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A prudent consideration for Number One. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Writers are the main landmarks of the past. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Grief alone can teach us what is man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Laws die, books never. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Life Lessons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

1. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, taught us the importance of using vivid language to create captivating stories that can inspire readers.
2. His work also showed us how to create characters that are complex and relatable, as well as how to craft compelling plots with unexpected twists.
3. Finally, his work demonstrated the power of literature to explore themes of morality and justice, and to challenge readers to think more deeply about the world around them.