Quotes by Samuel Butler

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

#Drink

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

#Courage, #Truth

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

#Death

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

#Death

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

#Appearance

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from...

#Christianity

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it...

#Christianity

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

#Arrogance, #Ignorance, #Pride

Figures never lie, but liars often figure

#Lies

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who...

#Instinct, #Lies

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate...

#Genius

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

#Humanity, #Mankind, #Temper