Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • She
  • Man
  • Feeling

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Character
  • Job
  • Person

• So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Human

• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hard

• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Dog

• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
  • Persons
  • Virtues
  • Useful

• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Courage
  • Possible
  • Virtues

• Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Moral
  • Greatness

• Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mother
  • Courage
  • Virtues

• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Habit

• Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Enemy
  • Shame

• One is punished best for one's virtues.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Punished

• Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Friends
  • Imagination
  • Wise

• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Rulers

• From my limited and immature child’s point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the United States of America, along with the original disciples of Jesus, an uncalculated number of genuine Christians who had lived throughout the ages, and many but not all of those mentioned in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which I first read at the age of eight when I found it on my parents’ book shelf.

  

  Andrew Himes
  • Book
  • Christian
  • Child

• Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friendship
  • I Love
  • Name

• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Virtues
  • Freeman