Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butlerwas an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1835
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.