Quotes By William Blake

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

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.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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.

Exuberance is beauty.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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