Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
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- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.