English author & politician (1803-1873)
Alone! -- that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
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The New Timon
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
You know
There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken,
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Lucile"
Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Student: A Series of Papers
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Last Words", Poems of Owen Meredith
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
What Will He Do With It?
Laws die. Books never.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Richelieu