Percy Bysshe Shelley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes, Percy Bysshe Shelley sayings, and Percy Bysshe Shelley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources! Percy Bysshe Shelley
Government has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kings are like stars -- they rise and set, they have the worship of the world, but no repose. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. Percy Bysshe Shelley
To be Omnipotent but friendless is to reign. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, and feeds her grief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill/ Which severs those it should unite; / Let us remain together still, / Then it will be good night. Percy Bysshe Shelley
To hearts which near each other move / From evening close to morning light, / The night is good; because, my love, / They never say good-night. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge does not howl in the dead. Percy Bysshe Shelley
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty. Percy Bysshe Shelley
But none ever trembled and panted with bliss / In the garden, the field, or the wilderness / Like a doe in the noontide with love’s sweet want / As the companionless Sensitive Plant. Percy Bysshe Shelley
With perfect joy received the early day, singing within the glancing leaves, whose sound. Kept a low burden to their roundelay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winter is come and gone, / But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Misery! we have known each other, / Like a sister and a brother / Living in the same lone home, / Many years — we must live some / Hours or ages yet to come. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. Percy Bysshe Shelley
When soft winds and sunny skies / With the green earth harmonize / And the young and dewy dawn / Bold as an unhunted fawn / Up the windless heaven is gone,-- / Laugh—for ambushed in the day,--/ Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity. Percy Bysshe Shelley
And, where they hope that quiet to enjoy / Which virtue pictures, bitterness of soul,/ Pinning regrets and vain repentances,/ Disease, disgust, and lassitude pervade / Their valueless and miserable lives. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jealousy's eyes are green. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers. Percy Bysshe Shelley
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, / Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; / Through desert woods and tracts, which seem / Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, / A hooded eagle among blinking owls. Percy Bysshe Shelley
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, / Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, / Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, / Pestilence-stricken multitudes. Percy Bysshe Shelley
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, / Which is the measure of the universe. Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fatal error: Uncaught yii\web\HeadersAlreadySentException: Headers already sent in /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/web/Response.php on line 443. in /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/web/Response.php:369 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/web/Response.php(342): yii\web\Response->sendHeaders() #1 /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/web/ErrorHandler.php(136): yii\web\Response->send() #2 /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/ErrorHandler.php(323): yii\web\ErrorHandler->renderException(Object(yii\base\ErrorException)) #3 [internal function]: yii\base\ErrorHandler->handleFatalError() #4 {main} thrown in /var/www/wisesayings.com/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/web/Response.php on line 369