"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia." — Mervyn Peake
"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia."
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Mervyn Peake
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39 Quotes by Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site.
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There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For…
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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams…
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Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and…
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees…
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I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
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The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
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Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural…
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that…
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was…
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and…
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More Fleet Quotes
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed,…
— Buffalo Bill
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Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
— Horatio Nelson
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar…
— Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in…
— Winston Churchill
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(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking…
— Vivien Leigh
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If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.
— Ron Paul
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We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could…
— George W. Bush
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too…
— Charles Lamb
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful;…
— Charles Darwin
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a…
— William Butler Yeats
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