English author & politician (1803-1873)
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
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
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Laws die. Books never.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Richelieu
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
The New Timon
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Harold
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
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
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
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
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
What Will He Do With It?