Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

A day may sink or save a realm.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


God's finger touched him, and he slept.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Love is the only gold.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


There's no glory like those who save their country.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


He makes no friends who never made a foe.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I am a part of all that I have met.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Authority forgets a dying king.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Believe me, than in half the creeds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


Better not be at all than not be noble.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson


By blood a king, in heart a clown.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson