Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton quotes

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not. (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The things which must be must be for the best. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Thought alone is eternal. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? View quote
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one is n't loved every day. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)
Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The unknown Is life to love, religion, poetry. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time's infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to have been before I cease to do and be! View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Since we parted, yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep? View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
There is a pleasure which is born of pain. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
In the lives of most women and men There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back and be forgiven. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Rest is sweet after strife. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)
Life hath set No landmarks before us. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Life is good; but not life in itself. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
But, however we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton