Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Grave
  • Dull

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • You
  • Understand
  • Genius

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • King
  • Voice
  • Popular

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Genius

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Communication
  • Genius

• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Clever

• Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Moments
  • Genius
  • Potential

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Rest
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Genius
  • Fortune
  • Companion

• In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Education
  • Genius
  • Judgment

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

  

  David Benioff
  • Inspiration
  • Write
  • Genius

• A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • People
  • Genius
  • Individual

• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Culture
  • Artist
  • Genius

• The greater the truth the greater the libel.

  

  Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
  • Truths
  • Trusting
  • Libel

• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Country
  • Mankind

• The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Talking

• Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Genius
  • Truths
  • Dull