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
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places
Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.