390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! – a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.