708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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

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.

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.