Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old T.s. Eliot quotes, T.s. Eliot sayings, and T.s. Eliot proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.T.S. Eliot
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.T.S. Eliot
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot
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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.T.S. Eliot
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.T.S. Eliot
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.T.S. Eliot
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.T.S. Eliot
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.T.S. Eliot
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Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.T.S. Eliot
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are…We must always take risks. That is our destiny...T.S. Eliot
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I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.T.S. Eliot
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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.T.S. Eliot
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.T.S. Eliot
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of toast and teaT.S. Eliot
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.T.S. Eliot
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.T.S. Eliot
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.T.S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.T.S. Eliot
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back / Turn upward from the desk / when the human engine waits / like a taxi throbbing waiting.T.S. Eliot
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.T.S. Eliot
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids. Sprouting despondently at area gates.T.S. Eliot
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Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.T.S. Eliot
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When the short day is brightest, / with frost and fire, / The brief sun flames the ice, / on pond and ditches, / In windless cold that is the heart's heat.T.S. Eliot
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back / Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits / Like a taxi throbbing waiting.T.S. Eliot
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The basis of drama is any form or rhythm imposed upon the world of action. T.S. Eliot
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A people without history. / Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern / Of timeless moments. So while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and England.T.S. Eliot
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. T.S. Eliot
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April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.T.S. Eliot
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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.T.S. Eliot