History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Quote by W H Auden

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

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

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

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

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...

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.