Quotes by Butler, Samuel

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material pro >>

Then spare the rod and spoil the child. >>

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize >>

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary >>

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. >>

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Butler, Samuel