Quotes by William Butler Yeats

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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.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler Yeats

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats
Friendship quotes by William Butler Yeats, UberQuotes

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

William Butler Yeats
Saint Patrick's Day quotes by William Butler Yeats, UberQuotes

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

William Butler Yeats

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

William Butler Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

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

William Butler Yeats

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats