Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Purpose, Genius, Fine

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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Contempt, Feels

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Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Energy, Results

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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Gun, Law, Missing

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It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

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Friendship, Character, Men

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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

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Men, People, Principles

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Heaven, Crime

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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

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Health, Brain, Half

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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Crazy, Thinking, Genius

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

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Writing, Past, Landmarks

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Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Chance, Turns

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Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

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Mother, Women, Century

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It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship, Real, Enemy

"What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

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

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Friendship, Communication, Men

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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

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Abuse, Reform, Revolution

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Courage, Brave, Doubt

"King Arthur". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book XII, Chapter XXVIII, 1848-1849.

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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

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Men, Style, Swagger

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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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Helping Others, World, Pounds

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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Children, Childhood, Genius

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Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Lying, Men, Perfection

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Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Character, Army, Men

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Business first, then pleasure.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Firsts, Pleasure, Business First

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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