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Samuel Butler Quotes
English composer, novelist, & satiric author
| “ | It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77 | ” |
| “ | An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) | ” |
| “ | All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Notebooks, 1912 | ” |
| “ | When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir | ” |
| “ | It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Erewhon (1872) | ” |
| “ | The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. | ” |
| “ | The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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| “ | Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away. | ” |
| “ | Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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| “ | Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. | ” |
| “ | Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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| “ | If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. | ” |
| “ | I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. | ” |
| “ | I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. | ” |
| “ | Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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| “ | Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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| “ | All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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