Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Want
  • You
  • Rule

• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Why
  • Rule

• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Rules
  • Rule
  • Only

• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Law
  • Rule

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Reasons
  • Pretend

• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Mom

• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Should
  • Rule

• We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Try

• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • She
  • Felt
  • Doctor

• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Actor

• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

  

  Alice James
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Compliments

• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
  • May

• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Saint
  • Holiness

• A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Future
  • Man

• Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Broken
  • Everyone
  • Pretend

• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Sometimes
  • Example
  • Boring

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rule
  • Saint
  • Pretend