Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
32 quotations
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.