Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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

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

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Love is the only gold.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.