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)
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. View quote
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. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
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. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
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. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
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. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
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. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
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)
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock