Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Moon Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Respect Quotes , Drama Quotes

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Agony Quotes , Tea Quotes

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Mirrors Quotes

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Paradise Quotes

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Poetry Quotes

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Real Quotes , Men Quotes

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Garlic Quotes

The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Practice Quotes

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Spring Quotes , Winter Quotes

I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Suffering Quotes

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Mirrors Quotes

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Pain Quotes

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Slave Quotes

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Romantic Quotes , Good Night Quotes

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dream Quotes , Flower Quotes

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes