34 Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson


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

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

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 on work

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

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

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

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

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

Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on nature

No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on perseverance

He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on power

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

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

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