Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities.

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.

I only hang about with people I don't feel awkward around. I don't let many people into my circle.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains