Words matter. These are the best Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Authority forgets a dying king.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
There’s no glory like those who save their country.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Love is the only gold.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
