--- title: "4 Foe Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley" description: "4 Foe quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Plus more from Percy Bysshe Shelley and more Foe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beaten_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_1038828.jpg" --- > [I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect-whose-doctrine-is-that-each/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beaten_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_1038828.jpg) > [Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-superstition-a-greater-foe-to/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_chastity_chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-su_1755391.jpg) > [... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/virtue-owns-a-more-eternal-foe-than-force-or-fraud-old-custom-legal/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c25/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_birth_virtue-owns-a-more-eternal-foe-than-forc_2040580.jpg) > [I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect-whose-doctrine-is-that-each-2/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_cold_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_2777369.jpg) ## Other authors on Foe - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/sun-tzu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-f-kennedy-51344.jpg) John F. Kennedy 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/john-f-kennedy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dorothy-parker-30299.jpg) Dorothy Parker 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/dorothy-parker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-schiller-36372.jpg) Friedrich Schiller 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/friedrich-schiller/) ## More by Percy Bysshe Shelley > [The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-everlasting-universe-of-things-flows-through-the-mind-and-rolls/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-quick-dreams-the-passion-winged-ministers-of-thought/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/hail-to-thee-blithe-spirit/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-jealous-keys-of-truth-s-eternal-doors/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/though-we-eat-little-flesh-and-drink-no-wine-yet-let-s-be-merry-we-ll/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [A dream has power to poison sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/a-dream-has-power-to-poison-sleep/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/titles-are-tinsel-power-a-corrupter-glorya-bubble-and-excessive/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed !”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-fall-upon-the-thorns-of-life-i-bleed/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/poets-and-philosophers-are-the-unacknowledged-legislators-of-the-world/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/dar-st-thou-amid-the-varied-multitude-to-live-alone-an-isolated-thing/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/spirit-of-beauty-that-dost-consecrate-with-thine-own-hues-all-thou/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-love-tranquil-solitude-and-such-society-as-is-quiet-wise-and-good/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-practice-of-utter-sincerity-towards-other-men-would-avail-to-no/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/thou-shoreless-flood-which-in-thy-ebb-and-flow-claspest-the-limits-of/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) > [Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/senseless-is-the-breast-and-cold-which-relenting-love-would-fold/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foe/percy-bysshe-shelley/#itemlist", "name": "4 Foe Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect-whose-doctrine-is-that-each/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beaten_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_1038828.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beaten_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_1038828.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beaten_i-never-was-attached-to-that-great-sect_1038828.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a…” — Percy Bysshe Shelley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-superstition-a-greater-foe-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_chastity_chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-su_1755391.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_chastity_chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-su_1755391.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_chastity_chastity-is-a-monkish-and-evangelical-su_1755391.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than…” — Percy Bysshe Shelley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... 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