Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men >>

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discov >>

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. >>

Quotations about Theater

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get t >>

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or ap >>

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel >>

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe