top of page
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats

"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."

Standard 
 Customized
"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Explore more quotes by William Butler Yeats

Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
Quote_1.png
William Butler Yeats
"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
bottom of page