Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Greatness

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: 62 quotes3 likes

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)

“He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Rank is a great beautifier.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Lady of Lyons

The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act ii, Scene i.

“The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,— the Rupert of debate!”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The New Timon (1846), Part i. In April, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”