Herodotus Quotes


Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T.S. Eliot Success 187
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important ... they do not mean to do harm ... they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. T.S. Eliot Greatness 169
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. T.S. Eliot Humility 121
For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another voice. T.S. Eliot Best Life 119
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot Apocalypse 105
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. T.S. Eliot Writing 95
Destiny waits in the hand of god shaping the still unshapen.. T.S. Eliot Destiny 94
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T.S. Eliot Right 94
These fragments I have shored against my ruins T.S. Eliot Nostalgia 93
O City city, I can sometimes hear Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, The pleasant whining of a mandoline And a clatter and a chatter from within Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls Of Magnus Martyr hold Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold. T.S. Eliot Alcohol 93
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. T.S. Eliot Memories 93
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T.S. Eliot Aging 89
Someone said: The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. Precisely, and they are what we know. T.S. Eliot Writing 87
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Poetry 82
Politic cautious and meticulous full of high sentence but a bit obtuse T.S. Eliot Politics 80
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 a toast and tea. T.S. Eliot Poetry 79
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man T.S. Eliot Library 76
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 God 75
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship once ended cannot be mended T.S. Eliot Friends 73
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. T.S. Eliot Loneliness 72
Do I dare Disturb the universe In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T.S. Eliot Poetry 69
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. Eliot Life 69
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer. T.S. Eliot Knowledge 67
If time and space as sages say Are things which cannot be The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why Love should we ever pray To live a century The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity. T.S. Eliot Eternity 66
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. T.S. Eliot Illusion 65
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore. T.S. Eliot Travel 62
To country people Cows are mild And flee from any stick they throw But Im a timid town bred child And all the cattle seem to know. T.S. Eliot Confidence 56
Someone said The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. Precisely and they are that which we know. T.S. Eliot Knowledge 56
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot Best Life 55
There will be time there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. T.S. Eliot Illusion 55
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all but you are the music While the music lasts. T.S. Eliot Music 54
And right action is freedom from past and future also. For most of us this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. The Dry Salvages T.S. Eliot Action 53
The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot Travel 52
But the Church cannot be in any political sense either conservative or liberal or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things liberalism a relaxation of discipline revolution a denial of the permanent things. T.S. Eliot Culture 51
I read much of the night and go south in the winter. T.S. Eliot Winter 51
What is hell Hell is oneself. Hell is alone the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. T.S. Eliot Hell 50
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T.S. Eliot Life 47
For he will do As he do do And theres no doing anything about it T.S. Eliot Cat 46
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. T.S. Eliot Time 44
Distracted from distraction by distraction T.S. Eliot Internet 44
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. My words echo thus in your mind T.S. Eliot Memory 43
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open T.S. Eliot Horror 42
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 Cruelty 40
Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light. T.S. Eliot Light 40
Do I dare Disturb the universe T.S. Eliot Dreams 40
I grow old I grow old I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T.S. Eliot Aging 39
Not the intense moment Isolated with no before and after But a lifetime burning in every moment. T.S. Eliot Time 38
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot Life and death 36
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 Jesus 31
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot Poetry 30

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