Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Men, Wealth

  "Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection".

• 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

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

• Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Meditation, Sage, Calm

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

• Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Titles, Wealth, Libel

  1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.

• Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap;
  Find wealth--let no imposter heap;
  Weave robes--let not the idle wear;
  Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Tyrants, Rights, Arms

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.247

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