813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

All time is unreedemable.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.