Quotes by Eliot, George

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference >>

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that th >>

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist >>

Quotations about Self-knowledge

Know one, know all. >>

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and i >>

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know o >>

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George