William Morris
William Morris
William Morriswas an English 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. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 March 1834
what-matters judging way
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
thinking years decision
There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
winter past sky
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.
trustees
We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
deeds fellowship sake
And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
eye small-rooms broken
Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
jewels jewelry jewellery
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
pain world bitter
A world made to be lost, -A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
summer air bells
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
dream lonely fellowship
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.
weed rain men
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
stress lying voice
From out the throng and stress of lies, from out the painful noise of sighs, one voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies.
fighting men names
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.
beautiful wall believe
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.