390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts, – when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth – when their love is prosperous and confessed.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro, – prayer.

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man’s genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

Shame is like the weaver’s thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.