Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

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.

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.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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

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

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

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.

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