T.S. Eliot Quotes
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.
'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.