Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

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And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

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No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

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Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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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.

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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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Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

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