Algernon Quotes

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? - Algernon Sidney

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Where might is, the right is:/ Long purses make strong swords./ Let weakness learn meekness:/ God save the House of Lords! - Algernon Charles Swinburne

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,/ The mother of months in meadow or plain/ Fills the shadows and windy places/ With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain . . . - Algernon Charles 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. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. - Algernon Sidney

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. - Algernon Sidney

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

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. - Algernon Sidney