Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

April is the cruellest month.

You are the music while the music lasts.

So the lover must struggle for words.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.