William Quotes
376 quotes by 289 authors
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Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We Hate William and Kate
— Steven Morrissey
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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore…
— John Aubrey
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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation…
— Susan Brigden
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Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,…
— Simon Schama
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Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on…
— Michael Sandel
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told…
— Marchette Chute
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Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.
— Susan Stinson
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William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.
— Robert Twigger
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In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have…
— Tasker Watkins
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
— Kate Middleton
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In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of…
— Marc Thiessen
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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
— William Butler Yeats
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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
— Evelyn Waugh
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Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of…
— Karl Marx
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William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into…
— Joshilyn Jackson
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Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job,…
— Jimmy Fallon
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I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and…
— Prince William
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289 authors contributed a total of 376 William Quotes, led by these top contributors: