Quotes by Alfred Tennyson

• Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
• I am a part of all that I have met.
• In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
• Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
• Love is the only gold.
• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
• My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
• O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
• Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
• Ring out the false, ring in the true.
• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
• Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
• So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
• Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
• 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.
• '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?
• God's finger touched him, and he slept.
• 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.
• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
• He makes no friends who never made a foe.
• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
• There's no glory like those who save their country.
• I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
• Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
• 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.
• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
• Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
• The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
• The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
• By blood a king, in heart a clown.
• Better not be at all than not be noble.
• Believe me, than in half the creeds.
• And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
• A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
• A day may sink or save a realm.
• Authority forgets a dying king.