English author & politician (1803-1873)
Lips with such sweetness in their honeyed deeps
As fills the rose in which a fairy sleeps.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
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King Arthur
When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
England and the English
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
Oh! beautiful is the love of youth to youth, and touching the tenderness of womanhood to woman; and fair in the eyes of the happy sun is the waking of holy sleep, and the virgin kiss upon virgin lips smiling and murmuring the sweet "Good morrow!"
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Last of the Barons
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pelham
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pausanias, the Spartan
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Last of the Barons
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Student: A Series of Papers
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pausanias, the Spartan
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Night and Morning
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man.
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Last Words", Poems of Owen Meredith