More - Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes

So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Bride

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Control

The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Death Pain

Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

Not the schoolboy heat,/ The blind hysterics of the Celt.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Prayer