English author & politician (1803-1873)
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
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Wit and Wisdom of E. Bulwer-Lytton
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
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
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
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
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
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions
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
You know
There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken,
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Lucile"
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
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Night and Morning
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
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pelham
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
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
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
Read to live, not live to read.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Caxtons