Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes

1809-1892, British Poet
quotes
52
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“Love is the only gold.”
Love
“Faith lives in honest doubt.”
Faith
“Authority forgets a dying king.”
Death and Dying
“Either sex alone is half itself.”
Men and Women
“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
Humor
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
Meaning of Life
“Trust me not at all, or all in all.”
Trust
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
Knowledge
“Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.”
Eyes
“God's finger touched him and he slept.”
Death and Dying
“The greater person is one of courtesy.”
Manners
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
Honor
“Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”
Sin
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
Smile
“Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.”
Anxiety
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
Love
“Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.”
Men and Women
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Action
“So much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
Achievement
“A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.”
Truth
“There's no glory like those who save their country.”
Glory
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
Conflict
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
Action
“Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.”
Prayer
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
Sorrow
“The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.”
Fools and Foolishness
“The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.”
Corruption