Quotes
Quotes - Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry, Promoter of mutual acquaintance, Of peace and good-will Among men and nations.
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
