R.E. Butler Quotes
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
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.
