390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

The pen is mightier than the sword!

My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.