Tag: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Beauty, thou art twice blessed; thou blessest the gazer and the possessor; often at once the effect and the cause of goodness! A sweet disposition—a lovely soul—an affectionate nature—will speak in the eyes—the lips—the brows—and become the cause of beauty. On the other hand, they who have a gift that commands love, a key that opens all hearts, are ordinarily inclined to look with happy eyes upon the world—to be cheerful and serene—to hope and to confide. There is more wisdom than the vulgar dream of in our admiration of a fair face.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Believe me that the happiest act of intellect, however lofty, is that which enables it to be cheerfully at home with the Real!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It is not study alone that produces a writer; it is Intensity.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common—inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton