Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton: Man

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton was English statesman and poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton: 28 quotes0 likes

“Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and ’t will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, ’t will leave him alone:
But ’t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)

“Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The Wanderer, Prologue, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,—what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)

“Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The Artist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part ii, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)