390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I did not fall into love – I rose into love.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

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

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!