Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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

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

Love is the only gold.

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

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.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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

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

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

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.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Authority forgets a dying king.

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.

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

A day may sink or save a realm.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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

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

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

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

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

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Ring out the false, ring in the true.