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T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.
— Howard Jacobson
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
— George Eliot
Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom — T. S. Eliot
And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.
— T. S. Eliot
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
— George Eliot
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
— T. S. Eliot
Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment. — T. S. Eliot
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
— T. S. Eliot
Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.
— George Eliot
We should not confuse information with knowledge.
— T. S. Eliot
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-
— T. S. Eliot
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
— T. S. Eliot
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
— T. S. Eliot
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
— George Eliot
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
— George Eliot
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
— George Eliot
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
— T. S. Eliot
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
— T. S. Eliot
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
— T. S. Eliot
I'll make sure you forget every guy but me, Jess Jordan. And that's a promise I mean to keep.Oh, that voice. — Anne Eliot
Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.
— T. S. Eliot
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
— T. S. Eliot
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
— T. S. Eliot
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
— T. S. Eliot
The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot
— Eugene H. Peterson
He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook.
— Lev Grossman
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
— T. S. Eliot
I that was near your heart was removed therefrom
— T. S. Eliot
A people without historyIs not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot
A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
— George Eliot
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
— T. S. Eliot
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
— T. S. Eliot
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
— T. S. Eliot
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
— T. S. Eliot
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
— George Eliot
Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
— T. S. Eliot
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
— George Eliot
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.
— T. S. Eliot
Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot
— T. S. Eliot
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
— T. S. Eliot
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
— T. S. Eliot
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
— George Eliot
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
— Eliot Spitzer
Survival is your strength not your shame.
— T. S. Eliot
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
— George Eliot
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
— George Eliot
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
— T. S. Eliot
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
— T. S. Eliot
Only through time time is conquered
— T. S. Eliot
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
— T. S. Eliot
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.
— George Eliot
Your shadow at morning striding behind youOr your shadow at evening rising to meet you; — T. S. Eliot
What is that noise?
— T. S. Eliot
that which is only livingCan only die — T. S. Eliot
What is that *smell*?"Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido
