390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Success never needs an excuse.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.