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Masters Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands…
- Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,…
- About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating…
- About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
- The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a…
More Masters Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton