William Morris Quotes
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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Forsooth, brethren, 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.
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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.
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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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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.