William Butler YeatsThinkers

Belief in god is, for the Englishman, a proposition whereby, while some people say there is a God and others say there is no God, for him the truth lies somewhere in between.

Civilization is a struggle to keep self-control.

Compromise is, for the Englishman, such that some people say there is a God, some people say there is no God, and the truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Dancing is an act in which we cease to distinguish the dancer from the dance.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

A Gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal success.

George Moore is a man carved from a turnip looking out from astonished eyes.

Hate is worst when it is an intellectual hate.

Henry James is an author whom reading is like the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

Intoxication is the only redeeming quality in some men. With such men, when they are not drunk they are sober.