“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
Religion
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
WarAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“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.”
Government“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
War“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.”
Sad“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
Poetry“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Best“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Death“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“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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“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“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money