"The critic does his utmost to blight genius…" — Thomas Love Peacock
"The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy."
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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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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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More Blight Quotes
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories…
— Winston Churchill
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Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
— William Shakespeare
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If…
— Bonnie Raitt
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I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of…
— Isak Dinesen
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit…
— William Blake
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty,…
— Stewart Udall
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It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
— Carl Jung
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the…
— Charles Lamb
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
— Roger Scruton
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