Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

English - Poet August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Soul, Words, Half, Like, Within

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Loved, Better, Lost, Never, Than

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

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heart, King, Blood, Clown

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work, Yourself, Man, People, Friends

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Brother, Men, Be Kind, You, Shame, Kind

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom, Knowledge, Lingers

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Find, Strive, Seek, Yield

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thoughts, Fool, Words, Jealous, Care

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

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I Am, Part, Met, Am

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friends, No Friends, Never, He, Made

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Experience, World, Arch, Move, Fades

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope, Smiles, Will, Year, New Year's

Love is the only gold. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Love Is, Gold, Only

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Alone, Power, Three, Lead

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die, Reply, Why, Reason, Make

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Myself, Lose, Action, Despair, Wither

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Time, Heir, Ages, Files, Foremost

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Wisdom, Wise, Say, Who, Most

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die, Why, Reason, Ours

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Happiness, Man, Absence, Mastery

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sympathy, Crown, Sorrow, Remembering

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Done, Things, Little, Much, Many, Worlds

There's no glory like those who save their country. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Country, Glory, Like, Who, Save, Those

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams, Live, True, Last, While

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Look, Remember, I Remember, Whom

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Darkness, Men, Hands, Reach, Out

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