Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

English - Poet | August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

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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.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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

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

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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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.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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