Thomas Love Peacock - Time Quotes

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Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

Thomas Love Peacock

'I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.'
'Pray, sir,' said Mr Milestone, 'by what name do you distinguish this character, when a person walks round the grounds for the second time?'

Thomas Love Peacock

Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Thomas Love Peacock

There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.

Thomas Love Peacock

Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.

Thomas Love Peacock

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

Thomas Love Peacock