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
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.