390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail

Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon’s beak.

Ambition has no rest.