61 Quotations by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 1. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl ...

- 2. All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ev ...

- 3. All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis ...

- 4. All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smalles ...

- 5. Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un ...

- 6. Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

- 7. Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, ...

- 8. Concerning God, freewill and destiny: of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men im ...

- 9. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of ...

- 10. Death is the veil which those who live call life. They sleep, and it is lifted.

- 11. Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

- 12. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- 13. Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil ...

- 14. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which ...

- 15. Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive C ...

- 16. History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

- 17. How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

- 18. I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments ...

- 19. If we reason, we would be understood. If we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain we ...

- 20. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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