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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
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AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
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ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p...
EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li...
G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i...
CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
MARIE LAURENCIN Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
ANDRE GIDE The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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ANDY WARHOL I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,...
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PAUL GAUGUIN For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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IGOR STRAVINSKY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
JAMES BAILEY Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
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HENRY MITCHELL The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o...
HENRY MILLE The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only a...
GRACE GLUECK The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what d...
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KENNETH TYNAN Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
DAWN FRENCH The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
DAVID HOCKNEY Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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DONAL HENAHAN When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not becaus...
CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
CINDY SHERMAN Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art...
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PAUL STRAND Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
NAPOLEON Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
OSCAR WILDE The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
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...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lampli...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely t...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and ...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,/ The mother of months in meadow or plain/ Fills th...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I am tired of tears and laughter,/ And men that laugh and weep;/ Of what may come hereafter/ For men...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is
That neither is most to blame,
If you have forgotten...
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Where might is, the right is:/ Long purses make strong swords./ Let weakness learn meekness:/ God sa...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To g...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Today will die tomorrow.
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Come down and redeem us from virtue,/ Our Lady of Pain.
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,/ Death lies dead.
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ALGERNON SWINBURNE I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
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ALGERNON SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lov...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse...
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ALGERNON SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
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ALGERNON SIDNEY The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
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ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
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ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY God helps those who help themselves.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
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ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
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ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD This is a call to the living,
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With the sufferi...
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CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
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CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&...
CHARLES MINGUS The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays.
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CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
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CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
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CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
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CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
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CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY