Quotes of William Morris - somelinesforyou

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

- William Morris

“ The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ”

- William Morris

“ Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ”

- William Morris

“ The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ”

- William Morris

“ Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ”

- William Morris

“ Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. ”

- William Morris

“ I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. ”

- William Morris

“ The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep. ”

- William Morris

“ The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? ”

- William Morris

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

- William Morris

“ If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ”

- William Morris

“ 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? ”

- William Morris

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

- William Morris

“ O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. ”

- William Morris

“ Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ”

- William Morris Hughes

“ So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ”

- William Morris

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

- William Morris

“ It seems most probable, that the many pre-existent streams in each river basin concentrated their water in a single channel of overflow, and that this one channel survives- a fine example of natural selection. ”

- William Morris Davis

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

- William Morris

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

- William Morris

“ Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ”

- William Morris

“ Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. ”

- William Morris

“ You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. ”

- William Morris Hunt

“ You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. ”

- William Morris Hunt

“ If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ”

- William Morris

“ Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. ”

- William Morris

“ Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ”

- William Morris Hughes

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

- William Morris

“ Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ”

- William Morris Hughes

“ You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. ”

- William Morris Hunt
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