Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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.

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

'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.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

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

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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.

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

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.

I am a part of all that I have met.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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

Authority forgets a dying king.

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.