Top 46 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.