Percy Bysshe Shelley

(444 votes)   Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(382 votes)   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
1792-1822, British Poet

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(341 votes)   Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(332 votes)   Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(300 votes)   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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(280 votes)   Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(273 votes)   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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(269 votes)   O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(264 votes)   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
1792-1822, British Poet

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(258 votes)   The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(257 votes)   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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(248 votes)   It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(247 votes)   The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(245 votes)   The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(242 votes)   Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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