Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Love Quotes

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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love has no thought of self!
Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
The loathsome prostitution of a hand
Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
To bless the thing it loves!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It seems to me that the coming of love is like the coming of spring; the date is not to be reckoned by the calendar.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love, like Death,
Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton