390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Genius has no brother.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

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

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.