Lord Alfred Tennyson

45 quotations
Authority forgets a dying king.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Death and Dying
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Death and Dying
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Doubt
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Experience
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Eyes
Faith lives in honest doubt.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Faith
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Fools and Foolishness
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Friends and Friendship
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Ambition
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Glory
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Honor
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Humor
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Knowledge
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Achievement
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Anxiety
Love is the only gold.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Love
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Love
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Love
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Manners
The greater person is one of courtesy.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Manners
I am a part of all that I have met.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Meaning of Life
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Men and Women
Either sex alone is half itself.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Men and Women
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Optimism
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Pain

Subjects Lord Alfred Tennyson spoke about

Achievement Action Ambition Anxiety Change Conflict Conservatives Corruption Critics and Criticism Death and Dying Doubt Experience Eyes Faith Fools and Foolishness Friends and Friendship Glory Honor Humor Knowledge