T.S. Eliot Quotes

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Joy is the best of wine.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.