William Butler Yeats Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”

“And say my glory was I had such friends.”

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

“But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”