William Morris Quotes (82 Quotes)

Would God that this next hour were past!

Stretch forth your open hands, and while ye live
Take all the gifts that Death and Life may give.

While Wood, who is 24, might be a much younger actor, he has nonetheless been making movies for 15 years and also possesses a canny sense of himself. Elijah didn't do 'The Lord of the Rings' to become a movie star, ... Nobody knew that it would be the amazing phenomenon that it turned out to be. He loved the books and did everything he could to get the part.

Wind, wind thou art sad, art thou kind; Wind, wind, unhappy thou art blind, Yet still thou wanderest the lily-seed to find.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.

If one ever gave
His life to any, mine I give to thee;
Come, tell me what the price of love must be?

God of mercy, how he turns away!

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Hast thou forgotten how love lives by this,
The memory of some hopeful close embrace,
Low whispered words within some lonely place?

'Unwavering, also well I love to see
That gracious smile light up your face, and hear
Your wonderful words, that all mean verily

The life before it,
Dost thou remember aught,
What terrors shivered o'er it
Born from the hell of thought?

Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,A tale of folly and of wasted life,Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,Ending, where all things end, in death at last.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Skip dominates most conversations in a negotiation and nobody questions the veracity of what he's saying it's the world according to Skip,

Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow,And seek for men's love in the short days of life.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

Love is enough though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real and why only a hundred thousand Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

the attitude of the judiciary to (young hackers) must change it must be 'that guy can cause havoc to international commerce and wreck a perfectly legitimate business'.

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,While we the living our lives are givingTo bring the bright new world to birth.

By God I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will -- what matters it

Protect, detect, react and deter. For example, firewalls are only of any real use if you master them and take action when you notice something wrong.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals miserable men.

I am Day; I bring again
Life and glory, Love and pain:
Awake, arise!

Not on one string are all life's jewels strung.

Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight.

The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art.

It is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor

Ah, where's the river's hidden Gold!

Give me love and work - these two only.

Love is Enough Love is enough though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

Cricket, following the Ashes success, has proven to be one of the major drivers of inbound tourism in the sports and leisure sector.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Do I not know now of a day in Spring?

Thy soul and life shall perish,
And thy name as last night's wind;
But Earth the deed shall cherish
That thou today shalt find.

Come--no crown ye shall have for your thirst and your fasting,
But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting!

Memory and imagination help a man as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands and, as part of the human race, he creates.

Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory byNo grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky,Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

He did not die in the night, He did not die in the day, But in the morning twilight His spirit passed away.

He is just what you know, O Galahad,
This love is happy even as you say,
But would you for a little time be glad,
To make ME sorry long, day after day?

Hast thou slain love with sorrow?

It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world

I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for I should answer A beautiful House and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for I should answer A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.