Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Human Quotes

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writers as the main landmarks of the past.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton