“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination
“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
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
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“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
Religion“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“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“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
Poetry“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
History“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Age“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