390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Nothing ages like laziness.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.