"A dead man who never caused others to……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue."
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
— Francis Bacon
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
— Michael Badnarik
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
— Victor Borge
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family,…
— Herman Cain
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
— Alex Campbell
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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