The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man’s natural tendency — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd’s crook Beside the scepter — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,–whether raised at a puppet — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton