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Quotes About William

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
~ William Butler Yeats
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
~ William O. Douglas
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
~ William Cowper
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
~ William Shakespeare
Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
~ William Shakespeare
William Makepeace Thackeray
~ Humor is wit and love.
I don't know how I can explain that moment. But it was the best moment I think in my life when I signed with Chelsea because it was my dream to come here.
~ Willian
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. -William Randolph Hearst
~ Susan Wiggs
and Bill Clinton broke with this archetype to devote their post-presidencies to humanitarian and other public causes. Previously, William Howard Taft, president
~ Joseph Wheelan
I love Issa Rae from 'Insecure.'
~ Willam Belli
They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
~ blake william vii
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
~ William Weld
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
~ Skeet Ulrich
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
~ William Butler Yeats
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
~ William Golding
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
~ William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
~ William Shakespeare
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
~ William S. Burroughs
Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us such incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratfrod was unquestionably that man -- whoever he was.
~ Bill Bryson
in Oxford the Reverend William Buckland wrote the first scientific description of dinosaurs and, not incidentally, became the world's leading authority on coprolites—fossilized feces.
~ Bill Bryson
Uncle Auberon (who was quite an old gentleman) had stopt listening to them both a while ago and had wandered off to resume his search for a book. It contained a spell for turning Members of Parliament into useful members of society and now, just when Uncle Auberon thought he had a use for it, he could not find it (though he had had it in his hand not a hundred years before). So Mr Goodfellow said nothing but quietly turned himself back into William Shakespeare.
~ Susanna Clarke