Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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2. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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3. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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4. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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5. “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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6. “Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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7. “Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.”

— Alfred Tennyson

8. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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9. “Sometimes the heart sees what’s invisible to the eye.”

— Alfred Tennyson

10. “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”

— Alfred Tennyson

11. “I am a part of all that I have met.”

— Alfred Tennyson

12. “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”

— Alfred Tennyson

13. “My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”

— Alfred Tennyson

14. “Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

15. “Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!”

— Alfred Tennyson

16. “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 Tennyson

17. “When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.”

— Alfred Tennyson

18. “I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

— Alfred Tennyson

19. “His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.”

— Alfred Tennyson

20. “The mirror crack’d from side to side “The curse has come upon me,” cried The Lady of Shalott.”

— Alfred Tennyson

21. “Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.”

— Alfred Tennyson

22. “Man is man, and master of his fate.”

— Alfred Tennyson

23. “I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.”

— Alfred Tennyson

24. “The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”

— Alfred Tennyson

25. “My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

26. “God gives us love, someone to love he lends us.”

— Alfred Tennyson

27. “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”

— Alfred Tennyson

28. “Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter’d with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.”

— Alfred Tennyson

29. “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

— Alfred Tennyson

30. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

— Alfred Tennyson

31. “Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.”

— Alfred Tennyson

32. “And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”

— Alfred Tennyson

33. “I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.”

— Alfred Tennyson

34. “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”

— Alfred Tennyson

35. “Attain the unattainable.”

— Alfred Tennyson

36. “That which we are, we are.”

— Alfred Tennyson

37. “I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.”

— Alfred Tennyson

38. “Gone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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39. “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.”

— Alfred Tennyson

40. “Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.”

— Alfred Tennyson

41. “That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.”

— Alfred Tennyson

42. “God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.”

— Alfred Tennyson

43. “Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

— Alfred Tennyson

44. “Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.”

— Alfred Tennyson

45. “Till last by Philip’s farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

46. “Authority forgets a dying king.”

— Alfred Tennyson

47. “Sweet is true love, though given in vain.”

— Alfred Tennyson

48. “Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.”

— Alfred Tennyson

49. “So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.”

— Alfred Tennyson

50. “Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.”

— Alfred Tennyson