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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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: adds, brother, his brother, infamies, infamy, murder, servitude, uniform, uniforms
«War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: War | Keywords: assassin, hired, hiring, jest, jesting, lawyer, priest, statesman, The Assassin, The Assassins, The Statesman, trade
«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»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: custard, Custards, custard pie, host, jellies, ladylike, luxuries, merry, mince, mince pie, mincing, pies, supper, toast
«In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: censure, censured, censures, censuring, drama, self-knowledge, self taught
«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»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Heaven | Keywords: canopy, curtain, ebon, grandeur, rolls, stud, studded, studs, The Vault, unclouded, unutterably, vault, vaulted, vaulting, vaults, vault of heaven
«Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: agonies, small talk, Teas
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: All Good Things, confused
«All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: abysses, disguising, fellowship, Fellowship of, mart, marts, pittance, The Deep, The Fellowship of, unsparing, venal, Very light
«Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Love, Promise | Keywords: creed, excludes, Free Inquiry, inquiry, vow
«Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Religion, Selfishness | Keywords: selfishness, twin
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