Samuel Butler foi um poeta britânico.
Dentre suas obras, características da literatura da restauração inglesa, destaca-se o longo poema satírico e burlesco sobre o puritanismo, Hudibras.
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“A uma guerra justa preferimos uma paz injusta.”
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), citado em "Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin" - Página 35, de Edward Latham - Publicado por Sonnenschein, 1906 - 318 páginas
“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”
Canto I, line 821
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 1495
Fonte: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer
“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Canto III, line 1
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 1047
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
Canto III, line 398
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto II, line 29
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Canto III, line 923
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 624
Fonte: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
Canto II, line 317
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto I, line 1277
Fonte: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”
Canto II, line 831
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
Canto II, line 443
Fonte: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Canto II, line 501
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”
Canto III, line 243
Fonte: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Canto I, line 843
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
Canto I, line 145
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”
Canto I, line 297
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”
Canto III, line 11
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
Canto II, line 872
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Canto II, line 257
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto II, line 377.
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
Canto III, line 957
Fonte: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4
“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
Canto I, line 149
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 51
Fonte: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)