Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Profession : Poet

Birth : August 6, 1809

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A day may sink or save a realm.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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 Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's no glory like those who save their country.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson