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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Affection Quotes

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

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,...

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

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.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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...

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

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.

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

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

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...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...