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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 181
AUTHOR: Alfred Tennyson (1809–92)
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