W. H. Auden Quotes

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.

Faithful found among the faithless.

Do not betray the people.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.