Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.”

— Alfred Tennyson

52. “Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.”

— Alfred Tennyson

53. “And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”

— Alfred Tennyson

54. “But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”

— Alfred Tennyson

55. “For always roaming with a hungry heart.”

— Alfred Tennyson

56. “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

— Alfred Tennyson

57. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for.”

— Alfred Tennyson

58. “The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.”

— Alfred Tennyson

59. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred Tennyson

60. “Life is brief but love is LONG .”

— Alfred Tennyson

61. “I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.”

— Alfred Tennyson

62. “Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.”

— Alfred Tennyson

63. “So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”

— Alfred Tennyson

64. “And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!”

— Alfred Tennyson

65. “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”

— Alfred Tennyson

66. “God’s finger touched him, and he slept.”

— Alfred Tennyson

67. “A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.”

— Alfred Tennyson

68. “Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.”

— Alfred Tennyson

69. “Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.”

— Alfred Tennyson

70. “For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

— Alfred Tennyson

71. “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”

— Alfred Tennyson

72. “Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.”

— Alfred Tennyson

73. “Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”

— Alfred Tennyson

74. “Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.”

— Alfred Tennyson

75. “I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.”

— Alfred Tennyson

76. “Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.”

— Alfred Tennyson

77. “Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.”

— Alfred Tennyson

78. “O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”

— Alfred Tennyson

79. “Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”

— Alfred Tennyson

80. “Silence, beautiful voice.”

— Alfred Tennyson

81. “A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”

— Alfred Tennyson

82. “Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.”

— Alfred Tennyson

83. “Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”

— Alfred Tennyson

84. “No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.”

— Alfred Tennyson

85. “Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.”

— Alfred Tennyson

86. “For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.”

— Alfred Tennyson

87. “I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.”

— Alfred Tennyson

88. “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 Tennyson

89. “Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

90. “Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”

— Alfred Tennyson

91. “He makes no friend who never made a foe.”

— Alfred Tennyson

92. “A life of nothing’s nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.”

— Alfred Tennyson

93. “Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.”

— Alfred Tennyson

94. “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use.”

— Alfred Tennyson

95. “For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.”

— Alfred Tennyson

96. “For this is England’s greatest son, He that gain’d a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.”

— Alfred Tennyson

97. “Whate’er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate’er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.”

— Alfred Tennyson

98. “He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.”

— Alfred Tennyson

99. “Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.”

— Alfred Tennyson

100. “Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match’d with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.”

— Alfred Tennyson