More - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Theater

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Joy

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Winter

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Aristocracy Wealth

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Beauty English Poet

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Pain Tragedies

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Action

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Leadership