Quotes by TS Eliot

Those who trust us educate us.

#Education, #Fathers, #Trust

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

#Applause, #Laughter

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And...

#Forgiveness

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

#Books

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

#Time

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

#Famous

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

#Death

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

#Death

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

#Death

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

#Enemies, #War

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

#Desire

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

#Failure