English author & politician (1803-1873)
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
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
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
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Night and Morning
Read to live, not live to read.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Caxtons
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pelham
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
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
What Will He Do With It?
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
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