Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I'm very passionate.

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

I'm a passionate entrepreneur. I'm like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I'll go - I'll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I'm so passionate about it.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I've ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.

I'm just fire.

Every culture has its own way of showing passion.

The reality is that passion and emotion go hand in hand.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

Of all things love is the most potent.

Love is a flame to set the will on fire

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Love is a clash of lightnings