208 Quotes by Lord Alfred Tennyson

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

What hope of answer or redress?/ Behind the veil, behind the veil.

And curving a contumelious,Gorgonized me from head to foot,With a stony British stare

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

The lawless science of the law, that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.