Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

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The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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I have drunken deep of joy.

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And on the pedestal these words appear:  'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'  Nothing beside remains. Round the decay  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

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All love is sweet, given or received.

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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

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