Tennyson Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are…
— Samuel Butler
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about…
— Dan Jenkins
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best,…
— Clifton Fadiman
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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then…
— Colleen Houck
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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark…
— Debbie Macomber
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet,…
— A. N. Wilson
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Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the…
— Wilferd Peterson
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It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private…
— Germaine Greer
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There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
— Fannie Flagg
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Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there…
— David Eddings
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It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re…
— Neal Shusterman
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I get no sense from his note at all,†said Will, bounding to his feet, “except that he can quote Tennyson’s lesser poetry. Sophie, how…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Tennyson Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Tennyson Quotes as follows: