Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when…

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Women Quotes

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no...

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no...

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People...

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People...