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
- 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.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- 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.
- 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.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
- I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.