Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. >>

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. >>

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Critics are already made. >>

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, >>

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took >>

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.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe