EDWARD BULWER LYTTON QUOTES IV

English author & politician (1803-1873)

Success never needs an excuse.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

speech, May 15, 1854

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Laws die. Books never.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Richelieu

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The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings

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When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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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

The New Timon

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Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Harold

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Lucretia; or, The children of Night

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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Student: A Series of Papers

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In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

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The Last of the Barons


The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

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Pausanias, the Spartan


In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

What Will He Do With It?