"The Way of All Flesh" Quotes
"The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques Victorian society through the life of Ernest Pontifex, who struggles against the oppressive expectations of his family and religion.
classics | 462 pages | Published in 2021
Quotes
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with contempt upon culture at first hand.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter.
One's thoughts fly so fast that one can often only catch a thin little piece of the tail of what it was one thought one thought.
Cooks can be trusted, but people cannot.
All men are liars, and all women are liars, and all children are liars.
The longer I live, the more I believe there is nothing in life so important as the way it is meant to be spent.
Virtue is only the attempt to act in accordance with our own natures.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Youth is the only thing worth having, and that is about the best thing I know of.
