"When I find myself in the company of……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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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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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
— Stephen Baldwin
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies.…
— Drew Barrymore
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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love…
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