Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton castlescostair What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton energymenpast Revolutions are not made with rosewater. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton revolutionriskmade Women love energy and grand results. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton resultsenergy A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mistakehearttwo Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ambitionreasonphilosophy Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton darkheartmen The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton cunningmiserscleverness What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wealthtalentmen Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton debtyouthlooks There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton heartcharactermen Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton crimemenheaven As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton excitementflirtinggames To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton heartcharactermen Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton breedinggood-naturefoundation The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton menwayyears Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passionwisdombridges Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton motivationgeniusmen Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton philosophicalrealphilosophy There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton weaponsvictimpraise
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