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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.
~ W. H. Auden
Isolationism has largely been a myth that really means "the United States will make unilateral decisions rather than forming meaningful alliances.
~ Unknown
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.
~ Unknown
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
~ W.B. Yeats
To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep.
~ W.B. Yeats
Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, 'Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. They say Ireland is not fit for self-government but that is nonsense. It is as fit as any other European country but we cannot grant it.
~ W.B. Yeats
such are the topsy-turvydoms of faery glamour—in a cockleshell.
~ W.B. Yeats
Some mediæval straw-splitting about the nature of the Trinity, which is only useful to-day to show how many things are unimportant to us, which once shook the world
~ W.B. Yeats
Come my flocks, my flower. I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas I'd like to discuss with thee.
~ W.C. Fields
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
~ Unknown
If you want romance, fuck a journalist.
~ W.H. Auden
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.
~ W.H. Auden
When I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.
~ W.H. Auden
If there ever was a man of whom it could be said that he 'hungered and thirsted after righteousness,' it was Kafka.
~ W.H. Auden
It is jolly to be regarded as a wicked, libidinous youth by an aged maiden Aunt.
~ Unknown
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
~ Unknown
The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
~ Unknown
This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!
~ Unknown
Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——
~ Unknown
When by the power of evil karma, misery is being tested, may the tutelary deities dissipate the misery.
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown