Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The worst part of an eminent man’s conversation is, nine times out — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover’s; and yet, in — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life’s prime — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton