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W H Auden Quotes
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. (W H Auden Quotes)
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. (W H Auden Quotes)
Of course, Behaviourism ‘works’. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. (W H Auden Quotes)
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. (W H Auden Quotes)
Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other’s good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth. (W H Auden Quotes)
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. (W H Auden Quotes)
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they’re glad to see you... (W H Auden Quotes)
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser’s score is always zero. (W H Auden Quotes)
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. (W H Auden Quotes)
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter’s waking thoughts (W H Auden Quotes)
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? (W H Auden Quotes)
A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere (W H Auden Quotes)
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep (W H Auden Quotes)
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable (W H Auden Quotes)
To ask the hard question is simple, the simple act of the confused will (W H Auden Quotes)
Thoughts of his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic (W H Auden Quotes)
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation (W H Auden Quotes)
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession (W H Auden Quotes)
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons (W H Auden Quotes)
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you’re good at (W H Auden Quotes)
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible (W H Auden Quotes)
Look, stranger, at this island now the leaping light for your delight discovers (W H Auden Quotes)
There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again (W H Auden Quotes)
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say (W H Auden Quotes)
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself (W H Auden Quotes)
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation (W H Auden Quotes)
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it (W H Auden Quotes)
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it (W H Auden Quotes)
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation (W H Auden Quotes)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible (W H Auden Quotes)