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There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon. - William Morris Quotes

There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon.

Swerve to the left, son Roger, he said, / When you catch his eyes through the helmet-slit, / Swerve to the left, then out at his head, / And the Lord God give you the joy of it! - William Morris Quotes

Swerve to the left, son Roger, he said, / When you catch his eyes through the helmet-slit, / Swerve to the left, then out at his head, / And the Lord God give you the joy of it!

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them. - William Morris Quotes

If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.

Art

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

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

English Designer

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful - William Morris Quotes

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

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

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

[I]t 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? - William Morris Quotes

[I]t 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?

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. - William Morris Quotes

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

English Designer

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

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

I know a little garden close / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might / From dewy dawn to dewy night. / And have one with me wandering. - William Morris Quotes

I know a little garden close / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might / From dewy dawn to dewy night. / And have one with me wandering.

Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. - William Morris Quotes

Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.

Now, with the Internet, there are multiple vendors and no protection standards. - William Morris Quotes

Now, with the Internet, there are multiple vendors and no protection standards.

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 Quotes

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.

Competition English Designer

We thank the council for being willing to allocate funds necessary to build a first-rate skate park. - William Morris Quotes

We thank the council for being willing to allocate funds necessary to build a first-rate skate park.

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 Quotes

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.

English Designer

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 Quotes

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.

English Designer

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

Folly

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

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

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

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

Art English Designer

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. - William Morris Quotes

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

English Designer

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. - William Morris Quotes

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

English Designer

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last - William Morris Quotes

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

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created. - William Morris Quotes

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.

Art English Designer

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

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

Speak but one word to me over the corn, / Over the tender, bowed locks of the corn. - William Morris Quotes

Speak but one word to me over the corn, / Over the tender, bowed locks of the corn.

Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky,Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. - William Morris Quotes

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

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name - William Morris Quotes

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them. - William Morris Quotes

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Death

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

Art

Give me love and work - these two only - William Morris Quotes

Give me love and work - these two only

Love

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. - William Morris Quotes

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. - William Morris Quotes

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

Men

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 Quotes

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?

Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss? - William Morris Quotes

Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss?

Kisses And Kissing

No man is good enough to be another's master - William Morris Quotes

No man is good enough to be another's master

The idle singer of an empty day. - William Morris Quotes

The idle singer of an empty day.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day,Judge any way you will -- what matters it? - William Morris Quotes

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

God

This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. . . . - William Morris Quotes

This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. . . .

Land

There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood at the head, / Over his feet lay the bride. - William Morris Quotes

There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood at the head, / Over his feet lay the bride.

Bed

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. - William Morris Quotes

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.

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on - William Morris Quotes

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. - William Morris Quotes

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

American Writer

When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger. - William Morris Quotes

When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger.

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate. - William Morris Quotes

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate.

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? - William Morris Quotes

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

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips. - William Morris Quotes

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

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