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 can't go to war with paparazzi.
- My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
- Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.