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....

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....

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

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....

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....