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
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.