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Thomas Love Peacock
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“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) first seen 1817 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Melincourt, chapter VII (1817).
“There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nightmare Abbey, chapter I (1818).
“The mountain sheep are sweeter But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it...As we drove our prize at leisure, The king marched forth to catch us: His rage surpassed all measure, But his people could not match us. He fled to his hall-pillars; And, ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The War-Song of Dinas Vawr", stanzas 1 and 3, from The Misfortunes of Elphin, chapter XI (1829). In the same chapter this is described as "the quintessence of all the war-songs that ever were written, and the sum and su…
“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crotchet Castle, chapter III (1832).
“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 (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gryll Grange, chapter XIX (1860).