Famous Samuel Butler Quotes

  • 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. – Samuel Butler

    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.– Samuel Butler

  • Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler

    Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.– Samuel Butler

  • The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. – Samuel Butler

    The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.– Samuel Butler

  • We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. – Samuel Butler

    We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.– Samuel Butler

  • We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. – Samuel Butler

    We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.– Samuel Butler

  • A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler

    A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.– Samuel Butler

  • A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.– Samuel Butler

  • Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ’s having healed his mother-in-law. – Samuel Butler

    Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ’s having healed his mother-in-law.– Samuel Butler

  • We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler

    We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.– Samuel Butler

  • Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. – Samuel Butler

    Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing.– Samuel Butler