Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”

“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”

“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”

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

“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”

“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.”

“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”

“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”

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

“Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.”