Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.


Posthumous Life, i - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come


To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.