Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the...

#William Butler Yeats

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you...

#William Butler Yeats

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand...

#William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

#William Butler Yeats

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the...

#William Butler Yeats

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

#William Butler Yeats

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

#William Butler Yeats

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

#William Butler Yeats

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

#William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

#William Butler Yeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

#William Butler Yeats

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

#William Butler Yeats