"If equal affection cannot be, let the more…" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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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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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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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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More Affection Quotes
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
— Aristotle
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
— Jane Austen
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
— Jane Austen
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
— Richard Bach
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or…
— Lord Acton
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of…
— Jane Addams
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I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
— George Best
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I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused…
— Daniel Boone
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