Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Trust me not at all, or all in all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

105. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

110. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

113. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

120. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

123. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

128. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

139. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

141. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

144. “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

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

— Alfred Tennyson

146. “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

147. “Love will conquer at the last.”

— Alfred Tennyson

148. “It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.”

— Alfred Tennyson

149. “Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.”

— Alfred Tennyson

150. “Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.”

— Alfred Tennyson