Quotes by Blake, William

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of reli >>

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, >>

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I a >>

Quotations about Respectability

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far >>

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. >>

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. >>

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Blake, William