"We all have these places where shy humiliations……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons."
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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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More Afternoon Quotes
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part…
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'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my…
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think…
— Terry Brooks
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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
— Anthony Burgess
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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging…
— David Byrne
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
— Jimmy Carter
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
— Barbara Cartland
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
— Maya Angelou
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the…
— Hank Aaron
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled…
— Ellen Glasgow
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