Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Poet
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Love is the only gold.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
I am a part of all that I have met.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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.
Authority forgets a dying king.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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.
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.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
A day may sink or save a realm.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Better not be at all than not be noble.