390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Public men are often alarmed into gratitude, seldom shamed into it.

Read to live, not live to read.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.