Quotes by : William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would....

In dreams begins responsibility.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him....

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in....

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by....

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced....