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Lord Alfred Tennyson quotes (37) That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Lever The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me? I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure! but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul.... Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Change For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Word It little profits that an idle king By this still hearth among these barren crags Matched with an aged wife I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Kindness No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand years. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Persecution Ah when shall all mens good Be each mans rule and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land And like a lane of beams athwart the sea Thro all the circle of the golden year? Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Peace The greater man the greater courtesy. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Crime The woods decay the woods decay and fall The vapours weep their burthen to the ground Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms Here at the quiet limit of the world. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Unsorted In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnishd dove; In the spring a young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Love Like a dog he hunts in dreams. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Dog The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Adam For men at most differ as Heaven and Earth But women worst and best as Heaven and Hell. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Man Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Life I must lose myself in action lest I wither in despair. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Action Self reverence self-knowledge self control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Self There lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Creed His honour rooted in dishonour stood And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Honor My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Strength It becomes no man to nurse despair but in the teeth of clenched antagonisms to follow up the worthiest till he die. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Despair God's finger touched him and he slept. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Death I am a part of all that I have met. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Book Some one had blunderd: Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Oath Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Europe Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Idleness Dear as rememberd kisses after death And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feignd On lips that are for others; deep as love Deep as first love and wild with all regret. Oh death in life the days that are no more! Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Kissing Two aged men that had been foes for life Met by a grave and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Memory Dreams are true while they last and do we not live in dreams? Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Dream Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Wisdom More black than ash-buds in the front of March. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Garden It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute And ever widening slowly silence all. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Trifles We are ancients of the earth And in the morning of the times. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Times Christmas and New Year Bells The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round From far and near on mead and moor Swell o Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Christmas But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Money Faultily faultless icily regular splendidly null. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Perfection O Love! they die in yon rich sky They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow forever and forever. Blow bugle blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer echoes answer! dying dying dying. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Soldier Mastering the lawless science of our law That codeless myriad of precedent That wilderness of single instances. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Law I hold it true whatever befall; I feel it when I sorrow most Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Better |
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