Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Quotes & Sayings

We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books, - what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope, - what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love, - what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining? — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton