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A book that furnishes no quot...

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Marriage may often be a storm...

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

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Death comes to all. His cold ...

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

My thoughts by night are ofte...

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The truth, I am convinced, is...

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longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual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.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

He kept at true good humor's ...

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Sir, I have quarrelled with m...

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The highest wisdom and the hi...

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Not drunk is he who from the f...

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

When Scythrop grew up, he was ...

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

How troublesome is day! It cal...

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Clouds on clouds, in volumes d...

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

I almost think it is the ultim...

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

... where the Greeks had modes...

... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

My quarrel with him is, that h...

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,Ђ'it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The highest wisdom and the hig...

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

The truth, I am convinced, is ...

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.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

Laughter ispleasant, butthe ex...

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

They have poisoned the Thames ...

They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

My thoughts by night are often...

My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone, I build
My castles in the air.

Thomas Love Peacock 46 quotes

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