Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes & Sayings

46 most famous Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a British poet who passed away on 8 July, 1822.

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

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”

“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”

“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”

“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.”

“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”

“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”