“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Age
“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
Religion“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.”
Beauty“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Best“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
War“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
Food“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
Hope“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“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.”
Change“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.”
War“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
History“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination