Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.