"A book that furnishes no quotations is no……" — Thomas Love Peacock

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

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25 Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty,…
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and…
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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