Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson

For love reflects the thing beloved.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

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.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

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!

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

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

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

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

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.