Top 380 Alfred Tennyson Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Faith lives in honest doubt.”

— Alfred Tennyson

352. “There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

354. “Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.”

— Alfred Tennyson

355. “And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?”

— Alfred Tennyson

356. “Broad based upon her people’s will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.”

— Alfred Tennyson

357. “Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.”

— Alfred Tennyson

358. “Where love could walk with banish’d Hope no more.”

— Alfred Tennyson

359. “France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men’s good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek’d and slaked the light with blood.”

— Alfred Tennyson

360. “The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.”

— Alfred Tennyson

361. “The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.”

— Alfred Tennyson

362. “Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder’d string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov’d so slight a thing.”

— Alfred Tennyson

363. “In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold.”

— Alfred Tennyson

364. “What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”

— Alfred Tennyson

365. “The last great Englishman is low.”

— Alfred Tennyson

366. “The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.”

— Alfred Tennyson

367. “Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.”

— Alfred Tennyson

368. “We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.”

— Alfred Tennyson

369. “I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.”

— Alfred Tennyson

370. “The noonday quiet holds the hill.”

— Alfred Tennyson

371. “Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.”

— Alfred Tennyson

372. “But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.”

— Alfred Tennyson

373. “A beam in darkness: let it grow.”

— Alfred Tennyson

374. “A louse in the locks of literature.”

— Alfred Tennyson

375. “All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.”

— Alfred Tennyson

376. “And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

377. “As the husband is, the wife is.”

— Alfred Tennyson

378. “Virtue must shape itself in deed.”

— Alfred Tennyson

379. “God made thee good as thou art beautiful.”

— Alfred Tennyson

380. “Oh good gray head which all men knew!”

— Alfred Tennyson

381. “The bearing and the training of a child Is woman’s wisdom.”

— Alfred Tennyson

382. “Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.”

— Alfred Tennyson

383. “O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”

— Alfred Tennyson

384. “Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.”

— Alfred Tennyson

385. “Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.”

— Alfred Tennyson

386. “It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.”

— Alfred Tennyson

387. “And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.”

— Alfred Tennyson

388. “How fares it with the happy dead?”

— Alfred Tennyson

389. “All Life needs for life is possible to will.”

— Alfred Tennyson

390. “The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.”

— Alfred Tennyson

391. “The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.”

— Alfred Tennyson

392. “What’s up is faith, what’s down is heresy.”

— Alfred Tennyson

393. “Few from too near inspection fail to lose, Distance on all a mellowing haze bestows; And who is not indebted to that aid Which throws his failures into welcome shade?”

— Alfred Tennyson

394. “Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.”

— Alfred Tennyson

395. “In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen: not less among us lived Her fame from lip to lip. Who had not heard Of Rose, the Gardener’s daughter? Where was he, So blunt in memory, so old at heart, At such a distance from his youth in grief, That, having seen, forgot? The common mouth, So gross to express delight, in praise of her Grew oratory. Such a lord is Love, And Beauty such a mistress of the world.”

— Alfred Tennyson

396. “Yet all experience is an arc, where through gleams the untraveled world, whose margin fades forever, and forever as I move...”

— Alfred Tennyson

397. “No diamonds! for God’s love, a little air!”

— Alfred Tennyson

398. “Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.”

— Alfred Tennyson