We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Love is the only gold.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
There’s no glory like those who save their country.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
