413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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

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

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.