“At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.”
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Famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
“The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.”
“The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.”
“No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.”
“He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.”
“The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.”
“The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.”
“To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!”
“Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.”
“Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?”
“Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.”
“Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.”
“A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.”
“There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.”