Famous Quotes / T. S. Eliot
86 Quotations by T. S. Eliot
- 21. I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
- 22. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age ...
- 23. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- 24. I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brou ...
- 25. I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
- 26. If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca ...
- 27. If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers ...
- 28. In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
- 29. In my beginning is my end.
- 30. In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
- 31. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
- 32. It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
- 33. It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the s ...
- 34. It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- Tha ...
- 35. It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
- 36. Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
- 37. Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
- 38. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
- 39. Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv ...
- 40. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a p ...