Famous Quotes

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'"

Samuel Butler on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Samuel Butler

• "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

• "The history of art is the history of revivals."

• "Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

• "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

• "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."