Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (1803–73,) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar”, “the pen is mightier than the sword”, “dweller on the threshold”, as well as the infamous opening line “It was a dark and stormy night”.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Topics: War, Genius, Talent
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. — It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. — It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Topics: Enthusiasm, Genius
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
Topics: Character, Poverty
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Topics: Education, Teaching
Nothing ages like laziness.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In spite of all wanderings, happiness is always found within a narrow compass and among objects which lie within our immediate reach.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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