A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Affection Quotes, Jokes Quotes

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as...

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman...

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman...

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it -...

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it -...