William Stead Quotes & Sayings

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. — William Thomas Stead

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. — William Thomas Stead

They say that we are all haunted by a Spiritual Presence, of whose existence we are only fitfully and sometimes never conscious, — William T. Stead

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people. — William Thomas Stead

My fugitive years are all hasting away,
And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,
With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head,
Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;
Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments I see,
Have a being less durable even than he. — William Cowper

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead. — William Blake

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman. — William Thomas Stead

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated. — William Steig

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message. — William Thomas Stead

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not (5.3.25-28). — William Shakespeare

The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship," - "occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness. — William Wilberforce