If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 77
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 5
Art and science have their meeting point in method. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
The easiest person to deceive is one's self. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
'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 G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0
Humor is the sunshine of the mind. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton British More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 0