560 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The quiet sense of something lost

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

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

As the husband is, the wife is.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

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

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.