Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) som...

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be:...

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, right...

Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the mornin...

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,a...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in j...

A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a f...

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, ...

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My ...

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfu...

Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for havi...

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the...