813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Someone said, ‘The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.’ Precisely, and they are that which we know.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ‘dear deceit’ of beauty.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall.

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

And so each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate.

The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320 Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.