The curse of the great is ennui. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton strive degrees achievement The food of hope is meditative action. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton action When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton humble wise advice The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passion ambition two Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton curves beauty art I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton morning men children Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ill done business Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton waiting character two The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton artist real imagination The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sneezing voice giving Nothing ages like laziness. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton laziness age What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton natural-talent purpose want Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton said may fiction The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton lucky men needs There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton names doe patience They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton shells rocks age Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ocean men science Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton numbers men enemy There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passion science art The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton vibrations eye violet
