Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- 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

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

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

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why:
Theirs is but to do and die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Better not be at all than not be noble.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
- 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

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

A day may sink or save a realm.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
believe me, than in half the creeds.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The creative act lasts but a brief moment,
a lightning instant of give-and-take,
just long enough for you to level the camera and to
trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,
depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good script and a good brief from the director is
enough to let me know what is expected of me.
- Sanjay Dutt

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual
perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
- Theodor Adorno

Happiness is brief.
It will not stay.
God batters at its sails.
- Euripides

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country,
and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic
sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
- Patrick White

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point,
but thorough.
I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard
for other people and their prejudices.
- John Henry Mackay

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- Caecilius Statius

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
- George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true
as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
- George Santayana

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the
rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
- Katherine Mansfield

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;
Of inspiration one percent,
of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas A. Edison

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation,
and for some men it is quite as difficult to record
an observation in brief and plain language.
- William Osler

My life had no meaning at all.
I found only brief interludes of satisfaction.
It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
- Pete Maravich

Times of my life, brief periods without music,
have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
- Tom Jenkinson

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit,
Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
- Stephen Phillips

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells
us that our existence is but a brief crack of light
between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation,
I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him
face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention
of ending our brief relationship.
- Donna Rice

We experience moments absolutely free from worry.
These brief respites are called panic.
- Cullen Hightower

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