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Say Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
- With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
- We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value…
- People find a way in which they can say something.
- So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
- With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of…
- Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
- I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
- We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
- Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
- Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and…
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- 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…
- I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do…
- Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get…
- 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…
- With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say,…
- It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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