413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.