457 Quotes by W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.Â

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, / Is a keen observer of life, / The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away / A man who's untrue to his wife.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets.

In headaches and in worry vaguely life leaks away, And time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Swans in the winter airA white perfection have