William Watt may refer to:
- William Watt (Australian politician) (1871–1946), Premier of Victoria and Speaker of the House of Representatives
- William Watt (journalist), journalist working for the Blackpool Gazette
- William Hogg Watt (1818–1893), Member of Parliament in the Manawatu region of New Zealand
- William Watt (miner) (1828–1878), California Gold Rush mining executive and California politician
- William Montgomery Watt (1909–2006), Scottish historian and professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Famous quotes containing the words william and/or watt:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called “silent poetry,” and poetry “speaking painting.” The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)