Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 25, 1803

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

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

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

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

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

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton