813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.

Only through time time is conquered

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.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.