"The truth, I am convinced, is that there……" — Thomas Love Peacock
"The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge."
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Thomas Love Peacock
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25 Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
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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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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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