Thomas Love Peacock - Crotchet Castle (1831)

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

Thomas Love Peacock

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Thomas Love Peacock

Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But 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