Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king.

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.

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

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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.

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

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

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?

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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