Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share Image
To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life. — William Morris Copy Share Image
A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost. — William Morris Copy Share Image
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“DAILY QUOTE "The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” — William Morris Copy Share Image
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with… — William Morris Copy Share Image
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life:… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have… — William Morris Copy Share
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,… — William Morris Copy Share
“Do not be deceived by the outside appearance of order in our plutocratic society. It fares with it as it does with the older… — William Morris Copy Share
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. — William Morris Copy Share
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending… — William Morris Copy Share
“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...” — William Morris Copy Share
Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to… — William Morris Copy Share
“October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze… — William Morris Copy Share
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris Copy Share
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris Copy Share
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite… — William Morris Copy Share
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for… — William Morris Copy Share
