813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

April is the cruellest month.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.