Best Thomas de Quincey Quotes
- Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times;… Accumulation
- Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. Age
- Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. Call
- The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. Art
- All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. All
- Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis. Bowers
- The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. Called
- No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. Certain
- If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking… Beer
- Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am… Amongst
- Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into… Agencies
- It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in… Afternoon
- Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… Ample
- But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and,… All
- here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a… Age
- There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. Discipline
- Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning. Drink
- Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly… Amongst
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