Samuel Butler Quotes
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.
Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. Edited by Henry Festing Jones, A.C. Fifield, 1912.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. At the time the Queen was not just a figurehead. She made most of the major appointments and had to approve of and sign many documents. In addition, she as the head of state met with foreign royalty and foreign diplomats. She would tell the Prime Minister of policies she wanted made and even how military strategy was to be handled. Although she had much power, she rarely used it and instead relied on her ability to persuade the Prime Ministers and other members of the Government. Disraeli and opposition leader Gladstone exchanged roles as the voters flip flopped between the two parties. Queen Victoria loved working with Disraeli and their meetings, but hated doing so with Gladstone. See {629314}.
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today.
