Quote by W.H. Auden Download Open image ““Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!”” — W.H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it. — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“It's really splendid to imagine you are a queen. You have all the fun of it without any of the inconveniences and you can… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“As his wife, Emilia must know Iago better than anybody else. She does not know, any more than the others, that he is malevolent,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks and good… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished features; Saw… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by which any… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
