Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#faults #loved #more #show #than

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#concealed #forgiveness #hardens #hurries #into

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#leave #love #rose #stem #thou

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#best #himself #his #inspires #listener

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#gray #hair #heart #knows

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#entirely #great #men #mightier #pen

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#application #fine #nothing #rough #skin

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#dream #manfully #nobly #prophets #shall

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#down #help #ounce #person #pound

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise