Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

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• Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

  

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• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

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• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

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• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

  

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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  

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• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

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• Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

  

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• When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

  

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• Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.

  

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• Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

  

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.

  

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• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  

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• Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

  

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• During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.

  

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• One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

  

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• What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

  

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• I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

  

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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