Edward Bulwer-Lytton Short Quotes

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Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A fool…flatters himself—a wise man flatters the fool.

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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets!

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The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

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Tennyson:
Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats.

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The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

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

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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.

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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In other countries poverty is a misfortune—with us it is a crime.

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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.

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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton