William Butler Yeats Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Empty

• It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Book, Class

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill, March 28, 1923.

• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Sex, Two

  Letter to Olivia Shakespear, Oct. 1927

• An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Wind, Hatred

  Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter"

• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Soul, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

• O heart, be at peace, because
  Nor knave nor dolt can break
  What's not for their applause,
  Being for a woman's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Poetry, Sake

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
  I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
  But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
  I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Blood, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

• When we are high and airy hundreds say
  That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
  While those same hundreds mock another day
  Because we have made our art of common things.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Public Opinion, Another Day

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.72, Library of Alexandria

• People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

  William Butler Yeats

  People, Opinion, Moral

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