“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes
1809 – 1892
English poet laureate of Queen Victoria, known for 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.
“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”
“Not once or twice in our rough island story, the path of duty was the way to glory.”
“Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss: my own sweet Alice, we must die.”
“I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, wherein at ease for aye to dwell.”
“Half light, half shade, she stood, a sight to make an old man young.”
“Meet is it changes should control our being, lest we rust in ease.”
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
“All the windy ways of men are but dust that rises up, and is lightly laid again.”
“And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me.”
“But the tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me.”
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
“Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, and cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!”
“That man's the best cosmopolite who loves his native country best.”
“But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”
