Alfred Lord Tennyson – 19 Quotes

19 well known Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– 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

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson