The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Bulwer Lytton

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Addresses. Democracy. The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, -the Rupert of debate.— filed under Argument
Art, in fact, is the effort of man to express the ideas which Nature suggests to him of a power above Nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which Nature, like himself, is but the effect.— filed under Art
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.— filed under Mischief
Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost! Arabian Proverb quoted by BULWERcc.— filed under Proverbs
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