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Letter "E" » Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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«If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.»
«There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Truth,
Vanity
| Keywords:
agonized, agonizing, application, rough, skin, vanity
«Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.»
«The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Truth
| Keywords:
idealize, idealized, idealizing, purely, represent, sculpture, truthfulness
«When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion»
«A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman»
«One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| Keywords:
amended, amending, disclosure, disclosures, display, evidences, excel, gently, surest
«Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Punctuality,
Time
| Keywords:
courtesy, graceful, princes, punctuality, stern
«Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy»
«What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| Keywords:
compass, compasses, immediately, in the middle, narrow, objects, wandering, wanderings
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