Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Enlightened
Fancy
Sees
Ignorant
Personality
Deficiencies
Others
Fancies
May
Deficiency
Studied
More quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is a glorious fever, desire to know.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ambition has no rest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton