Quote by Samuel Butler
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life
Read Quote

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Truth
Read Quote

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Home
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
respect
category

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. – William Jennings Bryan

Category:
respect

Awe and respect are two different things. – Oliver Reed

Category:
respect

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite – and one of the most capable – choreographers out there right now. – Harry Shum, Jr.

Category:
respect

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. – Juan Goytisolo

Category:
respect

Random Quotes

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Category:
cool

Ive become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. – Mayim Bialik

Category:
parenting

Ive been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. – Jack Nicklaus

Category:
History

Im so not stylish by nature, but Ive learned to work with what I have. – Julie Bowen

Category:
Nature