Daily Quote
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Jea
2005. 5. 27. 10:16
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.
- opening sentence of Paul Clifford (1830)
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
- All from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- opening sentence of Paul Clifford (1830)
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
- All from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton