Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes, Percy Bysshe Shelley sayings, and Percy Bysshe Shelley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!Percy Bysshe Shelley
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And many more destructions played in this ghastly masquerade, all disguised, even to the eyes, like bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As in the soft and sweet eclipse, when soul meets soul on lover's lipsPercy Bysshe Shelley
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In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it.Percy Bysshe Shelley