Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes
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No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
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We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
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Rest is sweet after strife.
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Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
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We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
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Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.
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Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.
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Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?
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That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
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The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.
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We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
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It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
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I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.
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Thought alone is eternal.
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Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?
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There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.
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However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.
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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
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Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
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Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.
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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
- Born: November 8, 1831
- Died: November 24, 1891
- Occupation: Former Viceroy of India
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