“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.” IfsFirstsTwoCharacterWaitingLinesFineGlances Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.” IfsMenCharacterDesireFriendshipWonderfulProudHonorEqualDegreesAdvantageRegardSecureSensitiveJudgementSubtleSensibleBe ProudDelicacyAdviserTactProud Of YouShabbySoundness Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.” IfsMenGivingChildrenStillsCountryCharacterRunningAgeSchoolAsksWaterBoysFiveStreetsFieldsHe ManHundredFairsGreenLondonCharmHolidayFifteenPresumptionRunning WaterGreen Fields Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.” MenCharacterFormFatherJudgingDutyForgivingGentleCharacteristicsAvenging Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.” IfsWorldTryingMindCharacterPayAttentionJudgingFameAreasPerfectionGreat ThingsReputationMinutiae Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.” MenCharacterCareEvilDutyArmyTake CareEvery ManReformMeritGood And EvilRemedyDeficiencyValiant Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.” KnowsMenWorldCharacterUseTurnsMoneyHe ManEvident Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.” CharacterPawns Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.” MenBelieveCharacterPastEnergyLove IsFailingEffectsProudElementsOrdinaryContradictionResolutionStrongestBelieve In MeCheerfulMeekSpiritedProud Man Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“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.” IfsMayCharacterNamesLostLost You Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” WorldHeartCharacterCompassionMy HeartTheatreListen To Your HeartGood HeartHeart To HeartHead And HeartGreat Hearts Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.” HumansCharacterNatureHuman NatureConsistentAuthorshipInconsistency Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.” MenMindHeartTwoSelfCharacterActionSecretDeedsHeart And MindOur ActionsArt HistoryTwo Lives Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.” MenHumansHeartMaySometimesCharacterJudging Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
