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William Butler Yeats Quotes and Quotations

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

- William Butler Yeats | Character and Personality Quotes

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

- William Butler Yeats | Conviction and Belief Quotes

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

- William Butler Yeats | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats | Education Quotes

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

- William Butler Yeats | Goodness and Giving Quotes

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

- William Butler Yeats | Intellect Quotes

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- William Butler Yeats | Life Quotes

Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.

- William Butler Yeats | Love Quotes

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

- William Butler Yeats | Morality and Ethics Quotes

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

- William Butler Yeats | Opinion Quotes

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

- William Butler Yeats | Poets and Poetry Quotes

A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

- William Butler Yeats | Politics Quotes

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

- William Butler Yeats | Secrets and Secrecy Quotes

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

- William Butler Yeats | Happiness Quotes

Florence Farr once said to me, "If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."

- William Butler Yeats | This Moment Quotes

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

- William Butler Yeats | Instincts Quotes

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

- William Butler Yeats | Family Quotes

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

- William Butler Yeats | Lighten up Quotes

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

- William Butler Yeats | Youth Quotes