Frases de Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, primer barón Lytton , fue un poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, político y periodista británico. Lytton fue un popular escritor de su tiempo que acuñó frases como «La pluma es más fuerte que la espada» y «Perseguir al todopoderoso dólar». Hoy se recuerda mejor su tópico: «Era una obscura y tormentosa noche...».

Su hijo Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Primer Conde de Lytton, fue virrey de la India desde 1876 a 1880. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. mayo 1803 – 18. enero 1873   •   Otros nombres Lord Lytton
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton: 40   frases 4   Me gusta

Frases célebres de Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“El genio hace lo que debe y el talento lo que puede.”

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.

“El destino se ríe de las probabilidades.”

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 94.

“El amor es la actividad del ocioso y el ocio del hombre activo.”

Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 56.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Frases en inglés

“What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.”

Lucretia, Part II, Chapter XII
Contexto: The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)

“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.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton libro Paul Clifford

Probably the most parodied and ridiculed opening line in literature. It is the inspiration for a satirical prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Used by Charles M. Schultz in the Peanuts cartoons.
Paul Clifford (1830)

“Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

“You speak
As one who fed on poetry.”

Act i, Scene vi.
Richelieu (1839)

“Fate laughs at probabilities.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton libro Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter x.

“Rank is a great beautifier.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Lady of Lyons

The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act ii, Scene i.

“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton libro Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Fuente: The Coming Race (1870), Chapter 1. This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.

“The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,— the Rupert of debate!”

The New Timon (1846), Part i. In April, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

“Ambition has no risk.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)