| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 4744 |
| QUOTATION: | To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away A man who’s untrue to his wife. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-U.S. poet. New Year Letter, note to l. 1277 (1961), repr. In Collected Poems (1976). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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