Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes

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When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The world is filled with folly and sin,
And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one is n't loved every day.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,—what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
It [archaeology] disinters from neglected tombs the inventions of departed genius, and bids them serve as studies and sources of inspiration to the genius of a later day.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
In science, address the few; in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton