English author & politician (1803-1873)
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
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man.
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Last Words", Poems of Owen Meredith
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Student: A Series of Papers
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Last Words", Poems of Owen Meredith
Laws die. Books never.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Richelieu
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?