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“The classic literature is always modern.”

Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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“Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.”

“The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.”

Cunning Avarice Cleverness Misers Imbecility

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“Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!”

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“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.”

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“Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.”

Ifs Should Audience Effects Drama Delay Metaphysical Oratory Frigid

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.”

Evidence Jewelry Ornaments Vulgarity

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.”

Hate Love Is Pardon Verge Stoops

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.”

Reason Philosophy Ambition Damp

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.”

“At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.”

Humans Policy Court Tongue Prey Ants

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton