Men Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man is man, and master of his fate.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The mighty hopes that make us men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man's word is God in man.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater man the greater courtesy.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Either sex alone is half itself.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars?…

— 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…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson