Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

English writer and poet

Lived from: 1803 - 1873

Category: Politics | Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 18 january 1873

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  • In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
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  • It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
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  • It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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  • Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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  • No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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  • One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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  • 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.
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  • Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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  • Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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  • Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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  • Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
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  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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  • 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.
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  • The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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  • The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
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  • The pen is mightier than the sword.
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  • The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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  • The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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  • The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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  • There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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