390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when “neither the voice of the lute nor the birds” shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

The curse of the great is ennui.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.