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Quotes About William

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party
~ William Saroyan
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
~ William Lyon MacKenzie
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
~ William Butler Yeats
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
~ William Butler Yeats
For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S.
~ Jason Fagone
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
~ William Henry Hudson
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
~ William Wycherley
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
~ William J. Brennan, Jr.
CHARLES. And there are two brothers of his, William and Walter Blunt, Esquires, both members of Parliament, and noted speakers; and, what's very extraordinary, I believe, this is the first time they were ever bought or sold. SIR OLIVER. That is very extraordinary, indeed! I'll take them at your own price, for the honour of Parliament.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What price did William pay for your life, for your loyalty sworn by oath? Could I purchase it from him? -Aislinn
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
I'm not normally a forgiving man. He turned his icy gaze on William again for a moment, then looked back at Father. But I don't bear a grudge when it's against my interest.
~ Ken Follett
Well, well, William Hamleigh," she said. "Too late, as usual." "Insolent
~ Ken Follett
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
~ William Shakespeare
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
~ William O. Douglas
My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
~ William Penn
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...
~ William Peter Blatty
I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on
~ William Peter Blatty
funeral," he said. "I just saw him. He is here in this ward in a
~ William Peter Blatty
Well, it's sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of
~ William Peter Blatty
That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman
~ William Peter Blatty
Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
All the medical examiners in the state of Florida are forensic pathologists with medical degrees.
~ William R. Maples
Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
~ William S. Wilson
each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
~ William S. Wilson