"Thank God for books as an alternative to…" — Wystan Hugh Auden

"Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation."

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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a… — Mary Kay Ash
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule,… — Rowan Atkinson
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,… — Michele Bachmann
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because… — Gerry Adams
You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy. — Lewis Black
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good… — Tom Brokaw
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and… — Jerome Bruner
Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. — George H. W. Bush
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. — George W. Bush
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down -… — Chris Christie
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best… — Winston Churchill

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