For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace -… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share
