Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: August 6, 1809
Died: October 6, 1892



A day may sink or save a realm.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson