Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love”

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”

“Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!”

“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.”

“We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks”

“Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny”

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Laws die Books never.

We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

The sunshine of the mind.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

What is human is immortal!

The pen is mightier than the sword.