813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

Poetry is a mug’s game.

For I have known them all already, known them all – Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

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.

Everyone’s alone – or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I’m sure they don’t. Is that a delusion?

It is the just man who Like a bold lion, should be without fear.

The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room.