Acts of injustice done,
Between the setting and the rising sun,
In history lie like bones, each one.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- 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.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
Best Quotes
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
- The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Don't waste your time trying to fit in because at the end of the day there's nothing beautiful about being someone else. Always remember that one day someone is going to notice the beauty of being You.
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
- I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
- Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.