390 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate – how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man’s natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts, – fine breeding.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

What is human is immortal!