| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 181 |
| AUTHOR: | Alfred Tennyson (180992) |
| QUOTATION: | The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Idylls of the King, line 408, The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, p. 574 (1899). |
| SUBJECTS: | Change |
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