Samuel Butler (poet): Trending quotes (page 2)

“Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,
Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 1313
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 309
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

Love , Heart

“Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 1011
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 1145
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Fraud

“With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 589
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“We grant, although he had much wit,
He was very shy of using it.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 45
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself, for lack
Of somebody to hew and hack.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 359
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Fight

“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
If bread and butter wanted weight;
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock doth strike, by algebra.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 119
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Mathematics

“Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think 's sufficient at one time.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 23
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

Thinking , Sense , Change , Time

“He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 261
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 821
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
The tools of working our salvation
By mere mechanic operation.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto I, line 1495
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer

World , Fools

“The hollow-hearted, disaffected,
And close malignant are detected;
Who lay their lives and fortunes down,
For pledges to secure our own.”

Samuel Butler (poet) Hudibras

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

Heart

“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 1
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

Pleasure , Cheating

“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.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 1047
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Lie

“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 398
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn
From black to red began to turn.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto II, line 29
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

Sun

“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 923
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“With books and money plac'd for show
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.”

Samuel Butler (poet)

Canto III, line 624
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

Money , Books , Falseness