One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
- 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.
- 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.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Best Quotes
- I have no idea how much money I've got.
- Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
- The worst men often give the best advice.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
- We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.