It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Quote by W H Auden

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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.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

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...

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

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