Thomas Love Peacock Short Quotes

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Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion is too much for me.

Thomas Love Peacock
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

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

Thomas Love Peacock
But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.

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

Thomas Love Peacock
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

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

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

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

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

Thomas Love Peacock
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Thomas Love Peacock
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

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
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Love Peacock
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
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
The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.

Thomas Love Peacock
All philosophers who find Some favorite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit Will force all nature to submit.

Thomas Love Peacock
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool with which men play like children and cut their own fingers.

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
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
In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.

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

Thomas Love Peacock