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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A fiction which is designed
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Art itself is essentially ethical;
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Happy is the man who
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Real philosophy seeks rather to
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud
and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Out of the ashes of
In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A
. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In one of the Welsh
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The poet in prose or
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Birds sing in vain to
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It is noticeable how intuitively
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Every man of sound brain
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Man must be disappointed with
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: There is no man so
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: He who seeks repentance for
Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Expression is the mystery of
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Vanity, indeed, is the very
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Rarest of all things on
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Say what we will, we
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: To dispense with ceremony is
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It is often the easiest
Nothing ages like laziness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Nothing ages like laziness.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Business dispatched is business well
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The distinguishing trait of people
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In solitude the passions feed
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Though Hope be a small
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The conscience is the most
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In how large a proportion
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Fame confers a rank above
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The Almighty proves his existence
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Vanity calculates but poorly on
All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: All doubt is cowardice -
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Self-confidence is not hope; it
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Only by the candle, held
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The worst part of an
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A chord, stronger or weaker,
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The fewer blows, the better.
Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Revolutions are not made with
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The circle of life is
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The strong and virtuous admit
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: O woman! woman! thou shouldest
Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Never get a reputation for
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The secret of fashion is
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: I would rather have five
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature
it makes the proud man meek
the cheerful, sad
the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Love is a very contradiction
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The frenzy of nations is
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Let us fill urns with
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: One vice worn out makes
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In the hour of strait
There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: There is a great deal
Nothing but real love
(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom
the cares and fears of poverty
the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Nothing but real love<br>(how rare
Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Men never forgive those in
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: When one is in a
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A mind once cultivated will
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It is only in some
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Wrap thyself in the decent
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Nothing so good as a
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Love like Death,, Levels all
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Better than fame is still
Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Character is money; and according
To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: To how many is the
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Personal liberty is the paramount
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Nothing can constitute good-breeding that
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Earnestness is the best gift
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,
sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Of all the conditions to
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The man who has acquired
Rank is a great beautifier.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Rank is a great beautifier.
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Political freedom is, or ought
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A man's own conscience is
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A pipe is the fountain
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: They have written volumes out
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Society is a long series
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,
when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth
when their love is prosperous and confessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Days are like years in
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: We are born for a
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Art is the effort of
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The astronomer who catalogues the
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The mind profits by the
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: At court one becomes a
The heart of a girl is like a convent
the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The heart of a girl
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: A woman too often reasons
Labour is the purgatory of the erring.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Labour is the purgatory of
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Man only of all earthly
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The same refinement which brings
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,
when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,
oh, then diet yourself well on biography,
the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: When some one sorrow, that
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Love sacrifices all things to
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In beginning the world, if
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It is the misfortune of
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It is a very high
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In some exquisite critical hints
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Genius, the Pythian of the
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: In all cases of heart-ache,
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: There is but one philosophy
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Love is on the verge
The food of hope is meditative action.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: The food of hope is
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: People praise us behind our
When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: When the world frowns, we
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Ask any school-boy up to
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, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: If aught be worse than
It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: It may, indeed, be said
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Centuries roll, customs change, but,
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Agreeable surprises are the perquisites
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