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

• To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.

  

  W. Ian Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Saint

• The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • History
  • Rule

• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Grace

• I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Bad
  • Parents
  • Like

• 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