Top 350 Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

52. “What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

53. “Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

54. “In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

55. “Labour is the purgatory of the erring.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

56. “A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

57. “Punctuality is a virtue, If you don’t mind being lonely.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

58. “In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

59. “The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

60. “No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

61. “Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

62. “Master books, but do not let them master you.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

63. “A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

64. “Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

65. “The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

66. “The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

67. “Sharp is the kiss of the falcon’s beak.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

68. “Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd’s crook Beside the scepter.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

69. “Rank is a great beautifier.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

70. “Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

71. “Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

72. “There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

73. “It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! ‘It is destiny’ dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

74. “Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

75. “Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

76. “In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

77. “It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

78. “Expression is the mystery of beauty.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

79. “There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

80. “It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

81. “It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

82. “There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men’s deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

83. “Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

84. “Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

85. “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.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

86. “A gentleman’s taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

87. “Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

88. “Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

89. “Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

90. “When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

91. “Genius has no brother.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

92. “There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts, – fine breeding.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

93. “There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

94. “To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

95. “All doubt is cowardice – all trust is brave.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

96. “Law dies, books never.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

97. “If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

98. “Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

99. “He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

100. “Shame is like the weaver’s thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton