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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.”

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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“What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?”

Order Heaven Struggle Fate Ignorance Blind Mysterious Transition Fullness Adverse

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.”

Men Should Enough Rich Wife Team Hobbies Mistress Corn Extravagance

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.”

Men Should Strong Quality Genius Affection Jealousy Jealous

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.”

Evil Literature Remains Glorious Doom

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The classic literature is always modern.”

Literature Modern Classic Preference Classic Literature

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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!”

Humans Art Eye Grace Human Nature Shame Thee Decent Modesty Veils Statues Thyself Wraps Marble Offence

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

“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