No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W. H. Auden Quotes

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

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,...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

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...

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.

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...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

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

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

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

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...

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....

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

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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

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

There's some fine line there where you could say, `I don't hate gays. I didn't...

There's some fine line there where you could say, `I don't hate gays. I didn't...

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they...

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they...

Hatchet murders were the house speciality of the Journal, whose front page was a virtual...

Hatchet murders were the house speciality of the Journal, whose front page was a virtual...