Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all...

#Truth

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there...

#Truth

May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may...

#Women

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

#Women

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

#Happiness

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of...

#Writers

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to...

#Love

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of...

#Intelligence

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

#Education

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

#Education

And say my glory was I had such friends.

#Friendship

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

#Anger, #Grief