Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed...”

— Alfred Tennyson

102. “The quiet sense of something lost.”

— Alfred Tennyson

103. “Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.”

— Alfred Tennyson

104. “Trust me not at all, or all in all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

105. “To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.”

— Alfred Tennyson

106. “Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.”

— Alfred Tennyson

107. “Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.”

— Alfred Tennyson

108. “The woman’s cause is man’s: they rise or sink Together.”

— Alfred Tennyson

109. “Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.”

— Alfred Tennyson

110. “I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.”

— Alfred Tennyson

111. “I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city’s ancient legend into this.”

— Alfred Tennyson

112. “Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long.”

— Alfred Tennyson

113. “Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

114. “What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?”

— Alfred Tennyson

115. “I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.”

— Alfred Tennyson

116. “The old order changes yielding place to new.”

— Alfred Tennyson

117. “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.”

— Alfred Tennyson

118. “Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.”

— Alfred Tennyson

119. “In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.”

— Alfred Tennyson

120. “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.”

— Alfred Tennyson

121. “I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?”

— Alfred Tennyson

122. “My mind is clouded with a doubt.”

— Alfred Tennyson

123. “Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.”

— Alfred Tennyson

124. “Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

125. “Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

— Alfred Tennyson

126. “Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.”

— Alfred Tennyson

127. “I am half-sick of shadows,? said The Lady of Shalott.”

— Alfred Tennyson

128. “What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.”

— Alfred Tennyson

129. “I found Him in the shining of the stars.”

— Alfred Tennyson

130. “All precious things, discover’d late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.”

— Alfred Tennyson

131. “Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.”

— Alfred Tennyson

132. “Too much wit makes the world rotten.”

— Alfred Tennyson

133. “Things seen are mightier than things heard.”

— Alfred Tennyson

134. “I wind about, and in and out, – With here a blossom sailing, – And here and there a lusty trout, – And here and there a grayling...”

— Alfred Tennyson

135. “There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass,...”

— Alfred Tennyson

136. “Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”

— Alfred Tennyson

137. “An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.”

— Alfred Tennyson

138. “After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.”

— Alfred Tennyson

139. “There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.”

— Alfred Tennyson

140. “So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight.”

— Alfred Tennyson

141. “I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”

— Alfred Tennyson

142. “Love is the only gold.”

— Alfred Tennyson

143. “Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.”

— Alfred Tennyson

144. “The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.”

— Alfred Tennyson

145. “Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.”

— Alfred Tennyson

146. “Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life’s last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.”

— Alfred Tennyson

147. “Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”

— Alfred Tennyson

148. “Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

149. “Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.”

— Alfred Tennyson

150. “Love will conquer at the last.”

— Alfred Tennyson