Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
27 Quotes
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"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
"Talent does what it can genius does what it must."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Time is money."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"What is human is immortal!"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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