A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
- W. H. Auden
More Quotes By W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I... Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a ... If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness;... Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Water is the soul of the Earth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I... Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross... Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other... Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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