Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Lived from: 1792 - 1822

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 august 1792 Died: 8 july 1822

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  • Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
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  • Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
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  • The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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  • The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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  • The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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  • The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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  • The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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  • The soul's joy lies in doing.
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  • Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
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  • There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
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  • There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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  • Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
    Alastor
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  • Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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  • To be omnipotent bui friendless is to reign.
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  • To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
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  • Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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  • War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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