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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W. H. Auden Quotes

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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

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

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...

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

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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

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

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,...

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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

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...

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.