Quotes by Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

#Evil

The history of art is the history of revivals

#Art, #History

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

#Humor, #Sin

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new...

#Ideas

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

#Irony

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

#Jokes

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

#Justice

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

#Literature

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

#Literature, #Science

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

#Literature

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

#Logic

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

#Logic