Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.


Bulwer's plays (ed. 1839)


The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure...

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure...

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure...

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure...