If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Affection Quotes

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...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

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....

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

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...

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

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...

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

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.

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...

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

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

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you...

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you...

Many dogs are the death of the hare

Many dogs are the death of the hare