Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
W. H. Auden
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
Author
Composer
Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Jórvík
Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Auden
Wystan H Auden
W. H. Wystan Hugh Auden
Still
Comment
Contemporary
Events
Alive
Read
Wish
Science
Orwell
Stills
Comments
More quotes by W. H. Auden
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
Let all your thinks be thanks.
W. H. Auden
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
W. H. Auden
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
W. H. Auden
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
W. H. Auden
Words are for those with promises to keep.
W. H. Auden
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
W. H. Auden
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
W. H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
W. H. Auden
Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
W. H. Auden
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
W. H. Auden
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden
