[ percy bysshe shelley Quotes ]
22 Quotations
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
[ Death and Dying ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 votes
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
[ Death and Dying ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 votes
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
[ Change ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 votes
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
[ Nature ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
24 votes
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 votes
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
26 votes
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
[ Power ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
29 votes
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
[ Revenge ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
25 votes
The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
[ The future ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
29 votes
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
[ Imagination ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27 votes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
[ Sorrow ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
31 votes
The soul's joy lies in doing.
[ Happiness ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 votes
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
[ Labor ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
30 votes
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
29 votes
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
[ Tragedies ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27 votes
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
[ War ]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27 votes
