William Butler Yeats Quotes

An intellectual hatred is the worst.
William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best; who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

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

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

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

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

I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet.
William Butler Yeats