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
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.