Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Topics: Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of...

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of...

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for...

All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for...

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does...

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does...

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of...

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of...

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

A day may sink or save a realm.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom stays

Knowledge comes, but wisdom stays

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past...

Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past...

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,...

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,...

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to...

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to...

I grow old learning something new everyday.

I grow old learning something new everyday.