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
You know
There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken,
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Lucile"
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
Success never needs an excuse.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
speech, May 15, 1854
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
The Disowned
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
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
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
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
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
What Will He Do With It?