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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  The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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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)