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Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Thomas Love Peacock quotes

English Author October 18, 1785 – January 23, 1866

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He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse. Thomas Love Peacock
On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude. Thomas Love Peacock
What do we see by [our enlightened age] which our ancestors saw not, and which at the same time is worth seeing? We see a hundred men hanged, where they saw one. We see five hundred transported, where they saw one. We see five thousand in the workhouse, where they saw one. . . . We see children perishing in manufactories, where they saw them flourishing in the fields. We see prisons, where they saw castles. We see masters, where they saw representatives. In short, they saw true men, where we... Thomas Love Peacock
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; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing..."
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. Thomas Love Peacock
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
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines..."
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost..."
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to..."
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a..."
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. Thomas Love Peacock
Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly..."
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. Thomas Love Peacock
The explanation, said Mr Glowry, is very satisfactory. The Great Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the ear is a cartilaginous funnel. Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created..."
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. Thomas Love Peacock

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