Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Poet's food is love and fame.

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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

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Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

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Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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

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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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No more let life divide what death can join together.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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Peace is in the grave.

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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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