Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Explore a curated collection of 90 quotes by T. S. Eliot. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

How wild it was, to let it be. — T. S. Eliot
We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine — T. S. Eliot
You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has — T. S. Eliot
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its impo — T. S. Eliot
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest bu — 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. S. Eliot
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — T. S. Eliot
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning. — T. S. Eliot
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. — T. S. Eliot
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types — T. S. Eliot
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's li — T. S. Eliot
In my beginning is my end. — T. S. Eliot
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit eno — T. S. Eliot
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. — T. S. Eliot
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place. — T. S. Eliot
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. Eliot
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to th — T. S. Eliot
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? — T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T. S. Eliot
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of educ — T. S. Eliot