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British novelist known for his historical novels and Gothic tales, famous for works such as 'Peveril of the Peak' and 'Evelyn Hope'.

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Famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”

Firsts Art Shows Lasts Process Beauty Grace Color Sight Method Logical Curves Formation Symmetrical

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Two Character Waiting Lines Fine Glances

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.”

Firsts Art Practice Essentials

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.”

Firsts Looks Said Eye Lasts Air Ambition Blind Fortune Prosperity Prudence Eagles

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.”

Needs Firsts Duty Forgiveness Forgiving

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.”

Men Firsts Rate

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Matter Able Law Political Imagination Sin Poor Fiction Moral Novel Objects Aliens Controversy Scope

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.”

World Firsts Littles Long Lasts Society Offers Creatures Stones Series Hills Pushing Our World Valleys Repose Uprising Moles Ridges Sisyphus

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.”

Firsts Grows Easy Interest Common Wife Husband Familiar Sufficient Ups & Downs Husband And Wife Leashes Wedlock

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Business first, then pleasure.”

Firsts Pleasure Business First

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Men Firsts Humility Pride

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”

Men Firsts Art Ideas Causes Effort Effects Art Is Recess

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Reason Truth Moral Draws Conclusion Folly Aphorism Dazzling Drawing Conclusions

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

About the Author

Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 407

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