English author & politician (1803-1873)
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
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Night and Morning
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
Read to live, not live to read.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Caxtons
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pelham
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Last of the Barons
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Pausanias, the Spartan
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
What Will He Do With It?