"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
― W. H. Auden
Topic(s):
Good
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- "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."
- "Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
- "A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep."
More In Good
- "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."― H. L. Mencken
- "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."― Plato
- "Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."― Quincy Jones