Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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

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?

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Authority forgets a dying king.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Love is the only gold.

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.