William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. Profoundly inspirational William Morris quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
If you’re searching for quotes by famous poets that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of famous William Wordsworth quotes, greatest Allen Ginsberg quotes and best Bertolt Brecht quotes.
Famous William Morris Quotes
History has remembered the kings and warriors because they destroyed; art has remembered the people because they created. William Morris
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers. William Morris.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris
A good way to rid oneself of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character William Morris
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. William Morris
With the arrogance of youth, I am 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. William Morris
Nothing should be made by man’s labor which is not worth making, or which must be made by labor degrading to the makers. William Morris
We are only the trustees for those who come after us. William Morris
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. William Morris
Wherever nature works, there will be beauty. William Morris
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
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful. William Morris
Count on, rest not, for hope is dead. William Morris.
My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another. William Morris
Rejoice, lest pleasureless ye die. William Morris
Nothing should be made by man’s labor which is not worth making, or which must be made by labor degrading to the makers. William Morris
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. William Morris.
The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
Worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill. William Morris
Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung. William Morris
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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
How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don’t care for the landscape itself? William Morris
I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one’s hands before one doing nothing to live like a gentleman, as fools call it William Morris
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. William Morris
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers. William Morris
Don’t think too much of style. William Morris
Everything made by man’s hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent. William Morris
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. William Morris
Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee. William Morris
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. William Morris
If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream. William Morris
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
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
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
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. William Morris
Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon the nice balance of horizontal, vertical, and oblique. William Morris
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
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier means: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed. William Morris
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. William Morris
A good way to rid oneself of a sense of discomfort is to do something William Morris
Love gives every gift whereby we long to live: Love takes every gift, and nothing back doth give. William Morris
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. William Morris
The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep. William Morris
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him, that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream. William Morris
When a rich man is hurt his wail goeth heavens high and none may say he heareth not. William Morris
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. William Morris
Give me love and work these two only. William Morris
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over wearisome nor over anxious. William Morris
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The soul attains. William Morris
Love is enough: though the World be a waning, and the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining. William Morris
How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don’t care for the landscape itself William Morris
We are only the trustees for those who come after us. William Morris
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
To do nothing but grumble and not to act that is throwing away one’s life. William Morris.
Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor. William Morris
Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. William Morris
Till again shall the change come, and words your lips say not. Your hearts make all plain in the best wise they would, and the world ye thought waning is glorious and good. William Morris
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. William Morris
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labor by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise. William Morris
I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one’s hands before one doing nothing to live like a gentleman, as fools call it. William Morris
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. William Morris
