| 48 Famous Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.”
Eating Quotes Source: Letter to Maria Gisborne
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“You must come home with me and be my guest;
You will give joy to me, and I will do
All that is in my power to honour you.”
Guests Quotes Source: Hymn to Mercury (st. 5)
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“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.”
Rain Quotes Source: The Cloud
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“And the wand-like lily which lifted up,
As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,
Till the fiery star, which is its eye,
Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky.”
Lilies Quotes Source: The Sensitive Plant (pt. I)
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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.”
Singing Quotes Source: To Jane--The Keen Stars were Twinkling
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“January grey is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with grief doth howl and rave,
And April weeps--but, O ye hours!
Follow with May's fairest flowers.”
Seasons Quotes Source: Dirge for the Year (st. 4)
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“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sadness Quotes Source: To a Skylark (st. 18)
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“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.”
Clouds Quotes Source: The Cloud
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“Far clouds of feathery gold,
Shaded with deepest purple, gleam
Like islands on a dark blue sea.”
Clouds Quotes Source: Queen Mab (bk. II)
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“Heaven's ebon vault,
Studded with stars unutterably bright,
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
Seems like a canopy which love has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.”
Sky Quotes Source: Queen Mab (pt. IV)
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“Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Adonais (LII)
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“The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Adonais (XXX)
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“In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of
bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand
shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh,
when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of
islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their
broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic
commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now
unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells
and the Fudges and their historians.”
Ruin Quotes Source: Dedication to Peter Bell the Third
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“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life!”
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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.”
Generosity Quotes |
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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Revenge Quotes |
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
History Quotes |
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“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
Familiarity Quotes |
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“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”
Labor Quotes |
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry Quotes |
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“All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”
Self-improvement Quotes |
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“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”
Study Quotes |
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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.”
War Quotes |
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