Author: Samuel Butler

Quotes

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

- Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

- Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

- Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

- Samuel Butler

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

- Samuel Butler

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

- Samuel Butler

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

- Samuel Butler

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

- Samuel Butler

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

- Samuel Butler

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