Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Word Quotes

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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

Alone! — that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton