Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.


Last of the Barons (1843), Book v, Chapter i.


Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.