Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those 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.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The mighty hopes that make us men.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson