T. S. Eliot

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past_x000D_ _x000D_ Into different lives, or into any future;_x000D_ _x000D_ You are not the same people who left that station_x000D_ _x000D_ Or who will arrive at any terminus,_x000D_ _x000D_ While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.