Famous Quotes / William Butler Yeats
56 Quotations by William Butler Yeats
- 41. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
- 42. The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I a ...
- 43. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- 44. Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- 45. This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk throug ...
- 46. Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
- 47. To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be ...
- 48. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
- 49. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
- 50. We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
- 51. We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
- 52. When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly ...
- 53. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage i ...
- 54. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w ...
- 55. Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetr ...
- 56. You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...