Algernon Quotes

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,/ Death lies dead. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisses/ And I have forgotten your name. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

And so with all things: names were vital and important. - Algernon H. Blackwood

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. - Algernon H. Blackwood

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. - Algernon Sidney

A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. - Algernon Sidney

A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light. - Algernon Charles Swinburne