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"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."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Argument

"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Change

"Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Critics and Criticism

"The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Dress

"There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Famine

"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Generosity

"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Leaders and Leadership

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Poetry and Poets

"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Revenge

"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
Author:     Percy Bysshe Shelley Category:     Studying


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