Latter Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till…

— Thomas Love Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

— Thomas Love Peacock

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

— Thomas Love Peacock

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

— Thomas Love Peacock

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was…

— Thomas Love Peacock

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

— Thomas Love Peacock

“On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected…

— Thomas Love Peacock

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…

— Thomas Love Peacock

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set…

— Thomas Love Peacock