The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonCharacter is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonSooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton