Top 47 Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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

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.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

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

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.