Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The food of hope is meditative action.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton