Quotes by Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.