Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

  

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

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• I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

  

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• If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

  

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• It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

  

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• I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

  

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• My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

  

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• I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

  

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• My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

  

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• When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

  

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• Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

  

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• I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

  

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• There's blood in my mouthCause I've been biting my tongue all week I keep on talking trashBut I never say anythingAnd the talking leads to touchingAnd the touching leads to sexAnd then there is no mystery left

  

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• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  

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• When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

  

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• Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

  

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• In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

  

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• "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

  

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• Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

  

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• The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

  

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• Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Gentleman
  • Irony
  • Invent