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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  • There is no great difference between politeness and affection.
    The Caxtons
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  • There is no past, so long as books shall live!
    The Souls of Books St. 4, 9
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  • 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.
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  • There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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  • Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
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  • We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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  • We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
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  • What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
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  • What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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  • What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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  • When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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  • When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
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  • Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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  • Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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