Thomas de Quincey Quotes
44 quotes
in 681 categories
-
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once…
Admirable
-
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised…
Absurdly
-
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man…
Creatures
-
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Beverage
-
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of…
Beauty
-
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
Feet
-
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Drug
-
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the…
Awe
-
Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
Chaos
-
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing…
All
-
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of…
All
-
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Complexion
-
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
All
-
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
Die
-
All that is literature seeks to communicate power
All
-
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Even Imperfection
-
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
Distrusted
-
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Carriage
-
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Binding
-
Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual…
Gaze
Browse Thomas de Quincey Quotes by Category