Percy Bysshe Shelley citáty

„Nebojte se budoucnosti, neplačte nad minulostí.“

„Čím víc se učíme, tím víc odhalujeme svoji nevědomost.“

„Nejjistěji lže ten, kdo pravdu pouze zfalšuje a nevymýšlí si úplnou lež; nejlépe je tu a tam ubrat kousek pravdy a nahradit ždibcem nepravdy.“

„Nikdo není opravdu dobře oblečen, nenosí-li na tváři úsměv.“

„Láska se rodí z okouzlení.“

„Někteří lidé dovedou opravovat jen cizí názory, nikoli vlastní.“

„Systém, který vymyslí velký člověk, nemohou hájit malí lidé, i k tomu je potřebí velkého člověka.“

„V manželství se spíše stydíme projevit manželskou lásku duchovní než tělesnou; před manželstvím ovšem naopak.“

„Básníci jsou neuznávání zákonodárci světa.“

„Velké duchovní vlastnosti málokdy dopomohou manželství ke štěstí, protože zřídka kdy zapůsobí. Zato malé pozornosti a zvyklosti a ústupný rozum jsou základem štěstí.“

„Kdo není stále moudřejší, není ani moudrý.“

„Hlava se věčně mění, dobré srdce málokdy.“

„Ženy čtou v cizím srdci lépe než ve vlastním.“

„Vtipnou lichotku snese i ten nejskromnější.“

„Brzy se i kuchařské umění zdokonalí tak, že kuchař, který peče pstruhy, nebude umět usmažit kapra.“

„Některými věcmi se člověk chlubí, aby se za ně nemusel stydět.“

“Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then — as I am listening now.”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“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.”

“Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.”

“By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses.”

“He lives, he wakes — 'tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. — Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone.”

“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.”

“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!”

“The sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?”

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

“She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.”

“And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.”

“The more we study, we the more discover / Our ignorance.”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

“Joy, once lost, is pain”

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

“All love is sweet, given or received…”

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

“Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle —
Why not I with thine?”

“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”

“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”

“No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.”

“With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.”

“He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely.”

“A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.”

“I love Love — though he has wings,
And like light can flee,
But above all other things,
Spirit, I love thee —
Thou art love and life! Oh come,
Make once more my heart thy home.”

“Fame is love disguised.”

“Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?”