Quotes by Algernon Swinburne

• To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
• Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
• Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
• While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
• Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.