Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

  

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• Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

  

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• When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

  

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• We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

  

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• The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

  

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• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  

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• When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

  

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• For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

  

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• One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

  

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• The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

  

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• The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

  

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• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  

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• There is every reason to believe that if humans had not arrived on the scene, the Neanderthals would be there still, along with the wild horses and the woolly rhinos. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.

  

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• The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Generations
  • Affections
  • Sympathies