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Them Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make…
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are…
- Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as…
- 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…
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has…
- Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
- There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
- There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
- 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 daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked…
- 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…
- When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster