Author: Samuel Butler

Cites

• Aristotle (2)
  • IN: Erewhon (1872) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is no action save upon a balance of considerations
    FROM: Paraphrase, (-350), Book, Greece
• Homer (1)
  • IN: Erewhon Revisited (1901) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: Him do I hate even as I hate Hell fire, Who says one thing, and hides another in his heart.
    FROM: Iliad, ix. 312, 313, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Way of all Flesh (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.
    FROM: Rom. viii. 28, (100), Bible, NULL
• Artist. Pol (1)
  • IN: Erewhon (1872) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: του yαρ ειναι δοκουντος αyαθου χαριν παντα πραττουσι παντες. (***Google Translate: of yar is honored to have a good time everywhere.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Paraphrase (1)
  • IN: Erewhon (1872) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is no action save upon a balance of considerations.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• T. H. White (1)
  • IN: The Book of Merlyn (1977) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He thought a little and said: "I have found the Zoological Gardens of service to many of my patients. I should prescribe for Mr. Pontifex a course of the larger mammals. Don't let him think he is taking them medicinally..."
    FROM: The Way of All Flesh, (1903), Novel, UK
• Thomas Love Peacock (3)
  • IN: Nightmare Abbey (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There's a dark lantern of the sprit, Which none see by but those who bear it. That makes them in the dark see visions And hag themselves with apparitions, Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt Of their own misery and want.
    FROM: Hudibras, (1684), Poem, UK
  • IN: Gryll Grange (1861) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind leading of the blind : — And like the world, men's jobbernoles Turn round upon their eara the poles, And what they're confidently told By no sense else can be control'd.
    FROM: Miscellaneous thoughts, (None), Poem, UK
  • IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Should once the world resolve to abolish All that's ridiculous and foolish, It would have nothing left to do, To apply in jest or earnest to.
    FROM: Miscellaneous thoughts, (None), Poem, UK
• Maggie Stiefvater (2)
  • IN: Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
    FROM: Erewhon, (1872), Novel, UK
• Matt Ralphs (1)
  • IN: Fire Witch (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hath not the present Parliament A ledger to the demons sent, Fully empower'd to treat about Finding revolting Witches out?
    FROM: Hudibras, (1684), NULL, UK
• Dean Crawford (1)
  • IN: Immortal (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Kealan and Shannon, Harry Burke (2)
  • IN: Concrete Gods (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible
    FROM: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, (1912), Book, UK
• Rob Thurman (1)
  • IN: Basilisk (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
    FROM: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, (1915), Book, UK
• Robert Sawyer (1)
  • IN: Illegal Alien (1997) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For Justice, though she’s painted blind, is to the weaker side inclined.
    FROM: Hudibras, (1684), Poem, UK
• Walter Scott (1)
  • IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks.
    FROM: Hudibras, in three parts, (1684), Poem, UK
• Mark Mills (1)
  • IN: Where Dead Men Meet (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again Where dead men meet, on lips of living men.
    FROM: "Not on Sad Stygian Shore", (1904), Poem, UK
• Ryan David Jahn (1)
  • IN: The Gentle Assassin (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    FROM: Further Extracts from the Note-Books of Samuel Butler, (1934), Book, UK
• Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1)
  • IN: The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina (1860) Anti-Tom Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: "For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery."
    FROM: Hudibras, (1694), Poem, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The modern Whig dictator: or, the exultation: a satyr. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: That Man is sure to lose, That fouls his hands with dirty Foes.
    FROM: Hudibras, Part II, Canto III, (1684), Poem, UK
• William Lenthall (1)
  • IN: A trip to Leverpoole, by two of fate's children, in search of Fortunatus's purse. A saytre [sic]. Address'd to the Honourable the Commissioners of Her Majesties customs. By a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn. (1706) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis true we've Money, th' only Pow'r That all Mankind falls down before; Money that, like the Swords of Kings, Is the left Reason of all things.
    FROM: Hudibras, (1684), Poem, UK