390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

Life is short – while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral – indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it – the philosophy of the garden.

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom – from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.