Quotes by William Butler Yeats
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
In dreams begins responsibility.
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.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says "there is no wisdom without leisure."
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
