What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton punctuality lonely mind Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton angel eye prayer Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton stars eye sweet Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton falcon beaks kissing Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton calm weapons power Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton real heart love Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton heart running love Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton gentleman honesty men There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wells age heart 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 dupes greatness men The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton graves principles social Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton rising lazy fate Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton training wish fame A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton common-sense winning men A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton simplicity gentleman fashion To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton views animal death I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton men believe fall He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton virtue angel past Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton names may character It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton vices brain doors
