Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

W. H. AudenPoet · English · 1907 – 1973
More from W. H. Auden
#Self
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
  • To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
  • A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden
  • We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — W. H. Auden
  • To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — W. H. Auden
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026