1809-1892, British Poet
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Love]
A day may sink or save a realm.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Time and Time Management]
A louse in the locks of literature.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Critics and Criticism]
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Smile]
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Sorrow]
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Truth]
Authority forgets a dying king.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Death and Dying]
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Prayer]
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Honor]
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Humor]
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Anxiety]
Either sex alone is half itself.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Men and Women]
Faith lives in honest doubt.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Faith]
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Perfection]
Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Forgiveness]
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Death and Dying]
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Thoughts and Thinking]
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Friends and Friendship]
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 – [Wives]
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Eyes]