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Quotes About Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
~ Samuel Butler
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
~ Calvin Trillin
The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.
~ Samuel Butler
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others
~ Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
~ Samuel Butler
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,Was beat with fist, instead of a stick.
~ Samuel Butler
For rhetoric, he could not opeHis mouth, but out there flew a trope.
~ Samuel Butler
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
~ Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
~ Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
~ Samuel Butler
Love is a boy by poets styled;Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.
~ Samuel Butler
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
~ Samuel Butler
I'll make the furFly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
~ Samuel Butler
Cleric before, and Lay behind;A lawless linsey-woolsey brother,Half of one order, half another.
~ Samuel Butler
The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere of erudition. 
~ Samuel Butler
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902
the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed
~ Margaret Mitchell
over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
~ Margaret Weis
Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap.
~ Georgette Heyer
you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!
~ Georgette Heyer
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
~ William Butler Yeats
Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?
~ Blake Butler
The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
~ Win Butler
wasn't the butler who looked out but Marcus Cynster.
~ Stephanie Laurens