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Been Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and…
- There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being…
- The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially…
- Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for…
- America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an…
- Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what…
- The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake…
- The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly…
- The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is…
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do…
- The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
- What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour