Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

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

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

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

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

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...

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

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

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

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

Love is the only gold.

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

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

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