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Quotes About William

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
~ William H. Seward
For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.
~ Thomas Asbridge
As des Roches moved to intercept one of the duke's knights, William charged forward to confront Richard himself. The great tournament champion was about to meet the Lionheart in single combat.
~ Thomas Asbridge
Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.
~ Virginia Woolf
on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to William in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. He was two weeks early. Prince Charles watched the birth, the first royal father to do so. Whatever the bad feelings of the past few months, this was an undeniably happy and bonding moment, even
~ Tim Clayton
But if Virtue was to be rewarded with Wealth it would not be Virtue. If Virtue was to be rewarded with Fame, it would not be Virtue of the sublimest Kind. Who would not rather be Fabricius than Caesar? Who would not rather be Aristides, than even William the 3rd? Who?
~ John Adams, 1778
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William ' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
~ Harry Melling
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
~ Lawrence Welk
William Blake," Langdon said. " 'The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.'
~ Dan Brown
My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
~ William Goffe
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
~ William Blake
Every Night & every Morn Some to Misery are Born Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to Endless Night Auguries of Innocence By William Blake
~ William Blake
He who will not bend to Love must be subdu'd by Fear.
~ William Blake
As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius
~ William Blake
The Jewish and Christian Testaments are an original derivation from the Poetic Genius.
~ William Blake
I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.
~ William Boyd
William Carlos Williams
~ Fools have big wombs.
The province of the poem is the world. When the sun rises, it rises in the poem and when it sets darkness comes down and the poem is dark
~ William Carlos Williams
papers of various shades sticking out from under others, throwing the printing out of line: portrait of all that which we have lost
~ William Carlos Williams
Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.
~ William Faulkner
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
~ William Faulkner
Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
~ William Faulkner
And so if Cash nails the box up, she is not a rabbit.
~ William Faulkner
Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.
~ William Finnegan