Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Curse away!
And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb
The Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost!"

Rank is a great beautifier.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!

Beauty, thou art twice blessed; thou blessest the gazer and the possessor; often at once the effect and the cause of goodness! A sweet disposition—a lovely soul—an affectionate nature—will speak in the eyes—the lips—the brows—and become the cause of beauty. On the other hand, they who have a gift that commands love, a key that opens all hearts, are ordinarily inclined to look with happy eyes upon the world—to be cheerful and serene—to hope and to confide. There is more wisdom than the vulgar dream of in our admiration of a fair face.

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea!

There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed.

Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

He who has loved often has loved never.

Buy my flowers—O buy—I pray!
The blind girl comes from afar;
If the earth be as fair as her children say,
These flowers her children are!

Fate laughs at probabilities.