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
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- 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.
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- 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.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- 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.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- 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.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Best Quotes
- My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
- I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
- When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
- Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.