| 121 Famous Quotes by Samuel Butler (1)
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“For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 673)
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“Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.”
Mind Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 161)
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“Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 1,173)
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“With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 624)
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“As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.”
Perception Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 481)
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“The trenchant blade Toledo trusty.
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack
Of somebody to hew and hack.”
Peace Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto, l. 359)
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“And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,
The length of breeches and the gathers
Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.”
Fashion Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 923)
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“Success, the mark no mortal wit,
Or surest hand, can always hit:
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,
We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,
Which in success oft disinherits,
For spurious causes, noblest merits.”
Fate Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 879)
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“As you sow y' are like to reap.”
Results Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 504)
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“Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more difficile
That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.”
Linguists Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 51)
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“A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.”
Linguists Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 93)
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“For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,
To smatter French is meritorious.
- Samuel Butler (1),”
Linguists Quotes Source: Remains in Verse and Prose--Satire--Upon Our Ridiculous Imitation of the French (line 127), a Greek
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“'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows,
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,293)
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“If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.”
Honor Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1,047)
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“Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
Honor Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 397)
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“Honor is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on.”
Honor Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I)
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“As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.”
Honor Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1,066)
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“Look before you ere you leap.”
Prudence Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I)
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“'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' his bow,
And burns for love and money too.”
Prudence Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1)
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“Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.”
Money Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 687)
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“Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
Money Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 687)
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“Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.”
Music Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 617)
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“For discords make the sweetest airs.”
Music Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 919)
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“Fear is an ague, that forsakes
And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;
And they'll opine they feel the pain
And blows they felt, to-day, again.”
Fear Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III)
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“His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis always left behind.”
Fear Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 64)
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