Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Word

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: 62 quotes3 likes

“What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.”

Lucretia, Part II, Chapter XII
Context: The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.

“Alone! — that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The New Timon, (1846). Part ii.

“In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail."”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

“Love hath no need of words.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu

Act I, Scene II
Richelieu (1839)