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Own Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
- A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
- Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if…
- The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
- Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
- The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
- The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the…
- Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good…
- Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
- The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;
- In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet…
- Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a geometrical…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov