451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

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.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.