List of quotes from W.H. Auden
"To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith."
by W.H. Auden
"False enchantment can last a lifetime."
by W.H. Auden
"Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were."
by W.H. Auden
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
by W.H. Auden
"Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one."
by W.H. 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."
by W.H. Auden