Quotes by W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

#W H Auden

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

#W H Auden

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

#W H Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

#W H Auden