"Miscellaneous Thoughts" in The Poems of Samuel Butler, Volume 2, Press of C. Whittingham, 1822, p. 269
"Fragments", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For he could coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit;
Words so debas'd and hard, no stone
Was hard enough to touch them on;
And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em;
The ignorant for current took 'em;”

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Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.”

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Canto I, line 273
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”

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Canto I, line 463
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.”

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Canto III, line 277
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He was in LOGIC a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks Committee-men and Trustees.”

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Canto I, line 65
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He had got a hurt
O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.”

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Canto III, line 309
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.”

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Canto III, line 547. Sometimes misreported as "is convinced" instead of "complies"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 11
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“This Light inspires, and plays upon
The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whisp'ring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”

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Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.”

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Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Kontext: Shall we that in the Cov'nant swore,
Each man of us to run before
Another, still in Reformation,
Give dogs and bears a dispensation?
How will Dissenting Brethren relish it?
What will malignants say? videlicet,
That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.

“Still amorous and fond and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.”

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Canto I, line 687
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)