There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton finishing games moving Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton truest immortality poet Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton soldier honor names Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton uprising our-world long The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton language vices world Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton spring sports book In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton small-villages views book Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton fusion strong soul O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton women book art Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton youth surprise Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton small-child anchors children The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton frenzy zeal fate The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton atoms stars add Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton cement all-things It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton rivals games moving If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton virtue joy world Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton men book knowledge There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sensitive selfishness want One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton worn vices fifty The Almighty proves his existence by creating. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton almighty existence creating
