Thomas Love Peacock Quotes
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
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There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is…
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they…
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now…
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
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The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.
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My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is…
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The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the…
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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical…
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The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
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My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
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Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
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