Quotes by Auden, W. H.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, >>

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of >>

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can crea >>

Quotations about Murder

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal an >>

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have th >>

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cann >>

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Auden, W. H.