"To say of shame - what is it?……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we… - 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

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72 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And…
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any…
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with…
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies…

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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. — Joey Adams
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. — Cyrano de Bergerac
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman
The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date. — Halle Berry
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in… — Christian Nestell Bovee
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. — Rupert Brooke
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. — Rupert Brooke
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my… — Chris Brown
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. — Robert Browning
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss… — Pearl S. Buck

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