Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Greece

Quotes about: Greece

• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

• But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Past, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Law, Roots

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.166

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