63 Quotes by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Whatever you lend, let it be your money and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

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

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.