Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850 complete passage: I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
As quoted in Before the Wedding: Fun and Provocative Questions to Prepare You for Married Life (2000), pg. 125 No context is available, beyond the fact that it is widely attributed to Tennyson.

"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Either sex alone is half itself." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"I am a part of all that I have met." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"A day may sink or save a realm." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Better not be at all than not be noble." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"God's finger touched him and he slept." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"There's no glory like those who save their country." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself." — Lord Alfred 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." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"To love one maiden only, cleave to her,/ And worship her by years of noble deeds,/ Until they won her." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." — Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!" — Lord Alfred Tennyson