Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.

  

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• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  

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• I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

  

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• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  

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• They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.

  

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• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rank
  • Pretence