Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton on Anniversary
1831–1891 England
← All quotes by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
7 quotes
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
The Wanderer (1859)
I loved you ere I knew you: know you now,
And, having known you, love you better still.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
No true love can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.
Lucile (1860)
When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
Whene'er I hear French spoken as I approve,
I feel myself quietly falling in love.
Lucile (1860)
The world is fill'd with folly and sin,
And Love must cling where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one isn't loved every day.
The Wanderer (1859)
However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.