Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

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• That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

  

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• We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

  

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• Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

  

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• Bullying happens at all ages and levels.

  

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• Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

  

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• There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages

  

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  

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• It is pain that ages us, not years.

  

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• I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

  

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• Nothing ages like laziness.

  

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• And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.

  

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• These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.

  

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• You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the Communists, and somehow survives all that and is shuttling between Baghdad and Damascus depending on which way the winds are blowing with the Baathists and their competition. But he's not a regime stooge, he's independent.

  

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• In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.

  

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• All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

  

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• The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

  

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• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  

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• I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

  

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• My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.

  

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Ages
  • Survives
  • Volumes