Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.”

— Alfred Tennyson

302. “And on her lover’s arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.”

— Alfred Tennyson

303. “We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”

— Alfred Tennyson

304. “Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.”

— Alfred Tennyson

305. “That man’s the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.”

— Alfred Tennyson

306. “A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.”

— Alfred Tennyson

307. “A day may sink or save a realm.”

— Alfred Tennyson

308. “Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”

— Alfred Tennyson

309. “Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.”

— Alfred Tennyson

310. “Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.”

— Alfred Tennyson

311. “Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!”

— Alfred Tennyson

312. “God and Nature met in light.”

— Alfred Tennyson

313. “A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”

— Alfred Tennyson

314. “Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.”

— Alfred Tennyson

315. “If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.”

— Alfred Tennyson

316. “For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.”

— Alfred Tennyson

317. “The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.”

— Alfred Tennyson

318. “Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.”

— Alfred Tennyson

319. “And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.”

— Alfred Tennyson

320. “Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”

— Alfred Tennyson

321. “O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may’st warble, eat and dwell.”

— Alfred Tennyson

322. “In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.”

— Alfred Tennyson

323. “Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.”

— Alfred Tennyson

324. “The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.”

— Alfred Tennyson

325. “Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword “Evolution” here.”

— Alfred Tennyson

326. “One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.”

— Alfred Tennyson

327. “Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.”

— Alfred Tennyson

328. “Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.”

— Alfred Tennyson

329. “I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.”

— Alfred Tennyson

330. “Faith is believing what we cannot prove.”

— Alfred Tennyson

331. “O last regret, regret can die!”

— Alfred Tennyson

332. “Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.”

— Alfred Tennyson

333. “The year is dying in the night.”

— Alfred Tennyson

334. “And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.”

— Alfred Tennyson

335. “Thoroughly to believe in one’s own self, so one’s self were thorough, were to do great things.”

— Alfred Tennyson

336. “And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?”

— Alfred Tennyson

337. “Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?”

— Alfred Tennyson

338. “Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.”

— Alfred Tennyson

339. “The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.”

— Alfred Tennyson

340. “You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.”

— Alfred Tennyson

341. “Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

342. “If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?”

— Alfred Tennyson

343. “Shall love be blamed for want of faith?”

— Alfred Tennyson

344. “What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.”

— Alfred Tennyson

345. “With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter’s heart.”

— Alfred Tennyson

346. “Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.”

— Alfred Tennyson

347. “I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.”

— Alfred Tennyson

348. “Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”

— Alfred Tennyson

349. “From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.”

— Alfred Tennyson

350. “Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.”

— Alfred Tennyson