Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

#Heaven, #Hell

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

#Literature, #Society

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he...

#Obedience

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

#Poetry

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects...

#Poetry

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own...

#Poetry

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

#Poets

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness

#Religion, #Selfishness

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With...

#Thought

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of...

#Victory

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

#War

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

#Youth