Quotes by Auden, W. H.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of >>

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape >>

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. >>

Quotations about Leisure

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fru >>

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that rec >>

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book >>

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

Auden, W. H.