Quotes by Eliot, George

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous wi >>

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world. >>

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. >>

Quotations about Beauty

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, mod >>

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the b >>

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearan >>

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George