63 Quotes by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Tears are akin to prayer Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

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

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.