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

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton: 28   quotes 0   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).

Love , World , Beauty

“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)

World , Feeling , Flying

“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part iii, canto ii. Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.
Lucile (1860)

World