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Nothing but real love--(how ra...

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 510 quotes

The distinguishing trait of pe...

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 510 quotes

There is certainly something o...

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

What a rare gift, by the by, i...

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Character is money; and accord...

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 510 quotes

What's money without happiness...

What's money without happiness?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Political freedom is, or ought...

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 510 quotes

Power is so characteristically...

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Only by the candle, held in th...

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The man who wants his wedding ...

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Faith builds in the dungeon an...

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

He who seeks repentance for th...

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Irony is to the high-bred what...

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

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There is an ill-breeding to wh...

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Shame is like the weaver's thr...

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The more a man desirous to pas...

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Let youth cherish sleep, the h...

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when 'neither the voice of the lute nor the birds' shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Society is a long series of up...

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 510 quotes

Birds sing in vain to the ear,...

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.

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In early youth, if we find it ...

In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

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