Eliot Quotes

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. - George Eliot

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. - Eliot Ness

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. - George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. - George Eliot

You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world. - Charles William Eliot

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. - George Eliot

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends... to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar! - T.S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts. - T.S. Eliot

You are not the same people who left that station / Or who will arrive at any terminus, / While the narrowing rails slide together behind you. - T.S. Eliot