Quotes By William Blake

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Exuberance is beauty.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Opposition is true friendship.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.