61 Quotations by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 21. In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-k ...
- 22. Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should b ...
- 23. It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h ...
- 24. January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how ...
- 25. Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it ...
- 26. Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to belie ...
- 27. Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
- 28. Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
- 29. Music, when soft voices die,
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- 30. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- 31. Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the c ...
- 32. Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
- 33. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- 34. Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis w ...
- 35. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- 36. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they ...
- 37. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- 38. Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
- 39. Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
- 40. Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief beco ...
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