Alfred Lord Tennyson's Quotes

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

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.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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

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

A day may sink or save a realm.

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

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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

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

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

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.

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

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

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.