William Morris Quotes

William Morris (14)

Birth:	24th March, 1834
Death:	3rd October, 1896
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Textile Designer, Artist, Writer

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Births

• 1927 - George Andrew Olah
• 1943 - Betty Williams
• 1947 - Anthony Holden
• 1928 - T. Boone Pickens
• 1965 - Catie Curtis

Deaths

• 1910 - Jules Renard
• 1997 - Alfred Day Hershey
• 1819 - Hugh Williamson
• 1949 - James Forrestal
• 1948 - Claude McKay

• Give me love and work – these two only.

  William Morris

  Topics in Love, Work

• If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

  William Morris

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Hate

• I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Defeat

• No man is good enough to be another’s master.

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Master

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Competition

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

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Warrior, Remembered

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

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in More, Few

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

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Took, Understand

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

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genuine, Lies

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dead, Alive

• The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  William Morris

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Know

• Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.

  William Morris

  Tags in Jewels, Strung

• 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

  Tags in Exercising