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W. H. Auden Quotes

W. H. Auden

English-born poet and man of letters

Nationality: English
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Type: Poet
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Birth: 1907-1973
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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French lite
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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The Writeris more concerned to know than to judge.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
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