Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

"Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: God, Body, Spirit)

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Life, Love, Men, Fear, Gods, Hope, Living, May, Sea, Thanksgiving)

"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Glory, Man)

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Death, Marriage, Time, Old, Wives)

"While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Men)

"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Fear, Hope)