Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock
English novelist, poet, and official
Alive from: 1785-1866
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | CountryBritish
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Source: Headlong hall (1816) -
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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