Quotes by Yeats, William Butler

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. I >>

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of >>

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they ar >>

Quotations about Journalism and Journalists

Bad manners make a journalist. >>

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. >>

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people wh >>

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

Yeats, William Butler