Quotes by : Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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