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Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity Picture Quote #1

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything Picture Quote #1

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me Picture Quote #1

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas Picture Quote #1

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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! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory. And thy name are his Picture Quote #1

Day is ended, darkness shrouds the shoreless seas and lowering clouds Picture Quote #1

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy Picture Quote #1

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond Picture Quote #1

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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams Picture Quote #1

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven Picture Quote #1

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies Picture Quote #1

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race Picture Quote #1

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country Picture Quote #1

He kept at true good humour’s mark the social flow of pleasure’s tide: He never made a brow look dark, nor caused a tear, but when he died Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

The present is our own; but while we speak, we cease from its possession, and resign the stage we tread on, to another race, as vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves Picture Quote #1

There are two reasons for drinking wine... when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure Picture Quote #1

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man Picture Quote #1

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away Picture Quote #1

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure. (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) 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 Quotes) Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory. And thy name are his (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Day is ended, darkness shrouds the shoreless seas and lowering clouds (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) 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 Quotes) He kept at true good humour’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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) ... 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 Quotes) The present is our own; but while we speak, we cease from its possession, and resign the stage we tread on, to another race, as vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) There are two reasons for drinking wine... when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes) I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away (Thomas Love Peacock Quotes)