Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler may refer to:

  • Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680), author of Hudibras
  • Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield
  • Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon
  • Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), who in 1871 took all ten wickets in an innings for Oxford against Cambridge
  • Sam Butler, Australian Rules footballer

Famous quotes containing the words samuel butler, samuel and/or butler:

    Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.

    Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.

    When long ago I saw her ride
    Under Ben Bulben to the meet,
    The beauty of her country-side
    With all youth’s lonely wildness stirred,
    She seemed to have grown clean and sweet
    Like any rock-bred, sea-borne bird....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)