Eliot Quotes

45 Eliot quotes by 39 unique authors

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover… — Brennan Manning
Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand over mine. "A… — Brad Barkley
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said,… — Elif Safak
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to… — Bart D. Ehrman
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an… — Jeanette Winterson
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of… — Bob Dylan
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.… — Virginia Woolf
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking… — Wil S. Hylton
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works… — Jacob Rothschild
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since.… — Penelope Mitchell
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean,… — Julia Glass
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been… — Cynthia Ozick
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote… — Cynthia Ozick
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike
All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches. — Ilana Glazer
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot… — A. S. Byatt
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. — Robert Morgan
Next is Eliot. They're also open, but with no indexes on Apache. I can run an empty search and it returns all of the images… — Mark Zuckerberg

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