Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
-
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
-
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
-
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.
-
Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.
-
I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh - Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.
-
The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.
-
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
-
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
-
Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.
-
The seed ye sow another reaps; The wealth ye find another keeps; The robes ye weave another wears; The arms ye forge another bears.
-
That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
-
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
-
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
-
Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day, Night followed, clad with stars.
-
From the haunts of daily life Where is waged the daily strife With common wants and common cares Which sows the human heart with tares.
-
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
-
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
-
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
-
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
-
Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city.
-
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
-
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!
-
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
-
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.