| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65809 |
| QUOTATION: | Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Butler Yeats (18651939), Irish poet, playwright. Speech, March 3, 1926, to the Seanad Eireann, the Irish Senate, on the coinage bill. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Yeats Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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