Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Impatience Quotes, Sin Quotes

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

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

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

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...

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

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

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

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...

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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

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

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

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

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

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...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass...