
Identity; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ozymandias (1818)
Context: I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: — Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Identity; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Remarkable Speeches
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Princess Diana Charity Work", Biography Online
John Herman Randall, "The Nature of Naturalism", epilogue to Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944)
Misattributed
“Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."”
Letter 5, 14.
Letters, Book I
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 291. (1922)
Of the crowds outside 10 Downing Street on August 3, 1914.
So also in ancient Greece, in ancient Rome, in the whole ancient world, all over Asia and Europe.
The Emerging National Vision, 4 December 1983, Calcutta.
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her