Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The easiest person to deceive is one's self.”

“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“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.”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”

“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

“O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”

“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”