Samuel Butler Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.''"
Unknown Source &bull Character

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."
Persian proverb &bull Doubt

"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man."
Harriet Beecher Stowe &bull Superstition

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost &bull Happiness

"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not."
Lord Byron &bull Hypocrisy

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(1612-1680) British poet and satirist.

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

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