Quotes by : Mervyn Peake

Oh how I hate people!

For what is more lovable than failure?

What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves....

Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughThe....

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because....

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do....

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of....

To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the....

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts.....

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white