34 Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on best

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on change

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

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on experience

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

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

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on knowledge

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on love

Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on wisdom