Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

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"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."

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"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."

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"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

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"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"

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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

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"Love is the only gold."

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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power."

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"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

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"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."

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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

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"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

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"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

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"Ring out the false, ring in the true."

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