Famous Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley Download Open image “The inheritors of unfulfilled renown” — Percy Bysshe Shelley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Famous Things happen for a reason
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“Those who enter into the possession of valuable estates, secured for them by the toil and struggles of ancestry, do not renounce their estates because they themselves were not consulted in the execution of the title deeds. These deeds of the Covenanters, and the heritage secured by them, were obtained through the noblest sacrifices. They were deeds presented before the… — Various Copy Share
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. — Rene Char Copy Share Image
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The News of the World made me more famous than being in Atomic Kitten. — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
