813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

I've been born, and once is enough.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree / In the cool of the day.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.