Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, was an English statesman and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, including during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878–1880 and the Great Famine of 1876–78.
He wrote several volumes of poems under the pen name of Owen Meredith.
He was the son of the novelists Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and Rosina Doyle Wheeler.
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“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
“Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge”
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton