William Wordsworth Quotes

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Stop
  • Dogs

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Me
  • Needs

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Live
  • Try

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• I made one untitled piece.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Made
  • Piece

• The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Home

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.

  

  Earl Felton
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Hate

• Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Made