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

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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).

“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)

“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)