Edward Bulwer-Lytton cytaty

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1. baron Lytton – brytyjski polityk, poeta i pisarz, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, minister kolonii w drugim rządzie lorda Derby’ego. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Maj 1803 – 18. Styczeń 1873   •   Natępne imiona Lord Lytton
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton słynne cytaty

„Jestem jak człowiek porzucony na bankiecie wśród zagasłych lamp i uwiędłych kwiatów.”

Źródło: Eleanor Herman, W łóżku z królem. 500 lat cudzołóstwa, władzy, rywalizacji i zemsty. Historia metres królewskich, Wydawnictwo Jeden Świat, Warszawa 2006, ISBN 8389632268, tłum. Katarzyna Kołaczkowska, s. 177.

„Jedno dobre serce jest więcej warte niż wszystkie głowy świata.”

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. (ang.)
Źródło: The Disowned http://books.google.pl/books?id=BkMVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+disowned&source=bl&ots=0hNK0yhr-k&sig=XGqi4iFrwpJXhA6nTBGk-lgxjuU&hl=pl&ei=Ucu7TeSGDo_ysgaTq5j1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false, J. & R. Williams, 1828

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Cytaty po angielsku

“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
Kontekst: 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.

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton książka Paul Clifford

Probably the most parodied and ridiculed opening line in literature. It is the inspiration for a satirical prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Used by Charles M. Schultz in the Peanuts cartoons.
Paul Clifford (1830)

“Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

“You speak
As one who fed on poetry.”

Act i, Scene vi.
Richelieu (1839)

“Fate laughs at probabilities.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton książka Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter x.

“Rank is a great beautifier.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Lady of Lyons

The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act ii, Scene i.

“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton książka Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton książka Vril

Źródło: The Coming Race (1870), Chapter 1. This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.

“The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,— the Rupert of debate!”

The New Timon (1846), Part i. In April, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

“Ambition has no risk.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)