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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Men And Women Quotes, Relationships Quotes

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...

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...

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

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

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 must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

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...

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...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in...

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in...

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and...

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and...