Famous Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotations

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"Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A day may sink or save a realm."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A day less or more/ At sea or ashore,/ We die - does it matter when?"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,/ Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,/ But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Cannon to right of them,/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them/ Volleyed and thundered."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:/ What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)?"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I am a part of all I have seen."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;/ I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Love is the only gold."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Our loyal passion for our temperate kings."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Ring out the feud of rich and poor,/ Ring in redress to all mankind."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Ring in the valiant man and free the larger heart, the kindlier hand! Ring out the darkness of the land, ring in the Christ that is to be!"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"So all day long the noise of battle rolled/ Among the mountains by the winter sea."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"So careful of the type she seems,/ So careless of the single life."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"The greater person is one of courtesy."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"The greater man the greater courtesy."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The world will not believe a man repents; And this wise world of ours is mainly right"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"The world which credits what is done/ Is cold to all that might have been."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To love one maiden only, cleave to her,/ And worship her by years of noble deeds,/ Until they won her."
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"
by 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."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A louse in the locks of literature."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Faith lives in honest doubt."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"There's no glory like those who save their country."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"By blood a king, in heart a clown."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower"
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Though we are not now at that strength which in better days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but not in will; To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."
by 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."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
by Alfred Lord Tennyson


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