29 Quotes By 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 on age

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on anger

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on art

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on art

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 on best

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on best

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on dreams

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on forgiveness

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 on friendship

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on future

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on happiness

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on happiness

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on love

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on nature

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on nature

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on nature

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on power

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on power

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on sad