Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet (18 January 1880-1965) is a relative of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was born to Lt. Col. Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet and Lady Mary Jane Jemima Shelley (née Stopford), daughter of 5th Earl of Courtown.
Famous quotes containing the words sidney, patrick and/or shelley:
“‘Who is it that this dark night
Underneath my window plaineth?’”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“And no one knows what’s yet to come.
For Patrick Pearse had said
That in every generation
Must Ireland’s blood be shed.
From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“‘As the old faded.’—‘Figures ever new
Rise on the bubble, paint them as you may;
We have but thrown, as those before us threw,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)