Quotes by : William Butler Yeats

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

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain....

Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we....

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is....