Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton: Quotes about love

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

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

“The world is filled with folly and sin,
And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one is n't loved every day.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Changes, 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)

“The unknown
Is life to love, religion, poetry.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Source: The Wanderer (1859), Prologue, Part i, stanza xxi, p. 8.