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People Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two…
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how…
- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do…
- The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair…
- It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
- 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…
- My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one…
- Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
- Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits…
- Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
- Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
- Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people…
- Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
- 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,…
- People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle