Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

English poet

Lived from: 1835 - 1902

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1835 Died: 18 june 1902

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  • The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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  • The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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  • The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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  • The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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  • The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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  • The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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  • The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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  • The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
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  • The history of art is the history of revivals.
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  • The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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  • The money men make lives after them.
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  • The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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  • The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.
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  • The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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  • The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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  • The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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  • The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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  • The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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  • The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
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  • The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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