105 Quotations by W. H. Auden
- 41. If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
- 42. In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it b ...
- 43. In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a uniqu ...
- 44. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for ...
- 45. In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
- 46. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his ...
- 47. It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, ...
- 48. It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people b ...
- 49. It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which ...
- 50. It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his ...
- 51. It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself ...
- 52. Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefe ...
- 53. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and ...
- 54. Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so con ...
- 55. May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri ...
- 56. May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri ...
- 57. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of ...
- 58. My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible ...
- 59. My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
- 60. My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
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