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The Cocktail Party Quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. - T.S. Eliot (The Cocktail Party Quotes)

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them.

Source:(ed. Faber & Faber, 1950), Act II, Page 99
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T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party Quotes
  • Book: The Cocktail Party
  • Writer: T. S. Eliot
  • Genre: Plays
  • Published: 1950
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