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

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

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

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

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

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

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

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