"Oh for someone with a heart, head and……" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie."
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345 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson has 345 quotes on this site.
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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little…
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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God gives us love, someone to love he lends us.
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening…
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast,…
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep!…
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud…
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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More Aristocrat Quotes
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
— Sade Adu
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to…
— Michael York
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
— Lytton Strachey
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went…
— Michael Foley
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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David,…
— Celia Imrie
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