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About Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and for The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical novel that has stayed in print since publication. Butler also wrote on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art. He made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are still consulted today.
More from Samuel Butler (189 quotes) →Other sayings from Samuel Butler
- “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”Samuel Butler
- “The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.”Samuel Butler
- “It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the b…”Samuel Butler
- “When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.”Samuel Butler
Reflections: more sayings
- “There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.”Charlotte Church
- “I think the most important thing is that I like to play in the midfield, but then wherever I need to play to…”Thomas Partey
- “In times of darkness, one navigates according to a compass.”Yoav Gallant
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932