Samuel Butler Quotes

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Samuel Butler
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04 December, 1835
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18 June, 1902
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