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Him Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
- Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
- Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled…
- No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
- Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity…
- Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world…
- Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
- Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
- When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George…
- There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden