390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, – whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle, – is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common – inquisitiveness.