390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.