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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Murder Quotes

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.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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

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

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

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...

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

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...

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...

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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.

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

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

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...