He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair - Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there! And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair - But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there! And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: 'It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away. You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums. Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibi, and one or two to spaer: At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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ELIOT The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human ... T.S. ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu... T.S. ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. T.S. ELIOT The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to ... T.S. ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. T.S. ELIOT All cases are unique and very similar to others. T.S. ELIOT We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ... T.S. ELIOT When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair w... T.S. ELIOT The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes. T.S. ELIOT We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o... T.S. ELIOT Human kind cannot bear much reality. T.S. ELIOT If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca... T.S. ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause. T.S. ELIOT To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips. T.S. ELIOT Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. T.S. ELIOT That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? T.S. ELIOT Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. T.S. ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. T.S. ELIOT Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w... T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan... T.S. ELIOT The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral T.S. ELIOT Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin. T.S. ELIOT I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa... T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T.S. ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. T.S. ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ... T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno... T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe? T.S. ELIOT We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with s... T.S. ELIOT Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? T.S. ELIOT There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho... T.S. ELIOT Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec... T.S. ELIOT We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. T.S. ELIOT It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. T.S. ELIOT We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh... T.S. ELIOT