Quote

No man is good enough to be another's master.

William Morris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Another
Enough
Good
Men
Master
Masters

More quotes by William Morris

Image
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.
William Morris
Image
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
William Morris
Image
There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
William Morris
Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
William Morris
Image
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris
Image
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
Image
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.
William Morris
Image
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
Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
William Morris
Image
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
William Morris
Image
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
William Morris
Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
William Morris
Image
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
William Morris
Image
Late February days and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
William Morris
Image
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris
Image
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
William Morris
Image
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.
William Morris
Image
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
William Morris
Image
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
William Morris
Image
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
William Morris