"Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and……" — Thomas Love Peacock
"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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Thomas Love Peacock
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25 Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock has 25 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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,…
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and…
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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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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
— Charlotte Bronte
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same…
— James Buchan
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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due…
— Winston Churchill
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden…
— Kuki Gallmann
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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved…
— Rufus Wainwright
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to…
— Erica Jong
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The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to…
— Tori Amos
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
— Frances Mayes
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You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
— Millicent Fenwick
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
— Tertullian
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