Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

- Jack Butler Yeats

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

- Jack Butler Yeats

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

- Jack Butler Yeats

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

- Jack Butler Yeats

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

- Jack Butler Yeats