Quotes by : Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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....