A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonPower is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAt court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton