813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

At the still point, there the dance is.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it