Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. Jack Butler Yeats More Quotes by Jack Butler Yeats More Quotes From 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 miracle flower rose Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. Jack Butler Yeats sentimental selfish heart 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 affection men thinking The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot. Jack Butler Yeats humorous summer winter