Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Poet Laureate of Victorian Britain, Tennyson wrote In Memoriam and Ulysses. His verse on loss, endurance and striving has comforted readers for over a century. Below are 15 of the most loved Alfred Lord Tennyson quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky.
I hold it true, whate'er befall — hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die.
Let knowledge grow from more to more, but more of reverence in us dwell.
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.
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier.'
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Ring out the old, ring in the new.