138 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.